Evening star., 1946-02-03
Achievement Women Guests
W0men's Press Club to Honor
The President and Mrs. Truman
By Gretchen Smith,
Women's Club Editor.

Long accustomed to persons of dis
tinction as visitors or residents of
the city, even blase Washingtonians
will be interested to hear of the ma
tionally famous women coming to
the Capital this week to be guests
at a dinner to be given by the
women's National Press Club on
Saturday. The affair will especially
honor the President and Mrs. Tru-
man at the Mayflower Hotel.
Ten women, whose achievements
In various fields of endeavor have
been outstanding during the past
year, have been selected by the wom-
EN- of the press to be achievement
guests" while one other woman has
been asked to attend as woman of
the year"
A small, serious woman, whose
grave eyes testify to the depth of
thought which has underlain her
lifes work, nuclear physics, DR.. Lise
Neither, has been chosen as woman
of the year" by the newspaper
women.
DR.. Neither, whose researches con-
tributed to the development of
atSmic fission. which subsequently
led to perfection of the atomic bomb,
arrived here last week preparatory
to joining the staff of Catholic Uni
yersity to teach nuclear physics dur
1ng the next semester.
The 10 achievement women rep
resent wide variety of callings, in
Guiding education, ballet and music,
government, literature, business, art
journalism. drama, radio and
science.
Woman in Education.
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Bar
nard College, the only woman dele
gate to the United Nations Confer
ence in San Francisco, has been
chosen as the achievement woman
in education. A signer of the his
toric UNO basic agreement now on
display in the Archives Building
Dean Gildersleeve was accorded her
post as an outstanding educator.
No more accomplished individual
In her field could have been chosen
to represent ballet and music than
Agnes de Mile, choreographer of the
popular musical comedy success
"Oklahoma" Doubly. gifted, Miss
de Mile, a native of New York
and educated in California. also was
the choreographer for the ballets
t'Three Virgins and Devil" and
sRodeo," dancing the leads in both.
! Washingtonians feel they almost
have the right to call Representative
Mary Norton their very own" SO
popular has she proven in the. num-
ber of years she has represented the
State of New Jersey on Capitol Hill
Mrs. Norton has been selected by
the women scribes as achievement
woman in the field of Government,
being the first woman to be chair
man of major committee in Con-
gress where she has for a long time
been chairman of the House Com
mittee on Labor.
Many women have distinguished
themselves during the past year in
the field of literature, but the news
paperwomen decided to present theil
Reinforcement crown" in that field
to I. A. r. Wylie, whose pre-emi-
nence as writer of fiction was en-
hanced last year by her novel, "Hc
the Wild Wind" She was also the
author of the discussion provoking
article in Harper's magazine, THE
Little Woman.
One of the youngest women Sc
lected by the Women's National
Press Club as winner of an achieve
ment honor, Is Miss Ruth M. Leach
who, still in her 20s. holds the i'm
portant position of vice president OF