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    The Federal Woman's Award, also known as the Federal Women's Award, was given by the United States Civil Service Commission from 1961 until 1976. The Federal...
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    1957 to 1970. In 1967, she was one of the six recipients of the Federal Woman's Award. Kathryn Elmira Grove was born in Annandale, Pennsylvania. She and...
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    was a Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor, awarded the Federal Woman's Award in 1973 for her work in the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory...
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    American social worker, and an international and federal government official. She won the Federal Woman's Award in 1964, for her work and leadership at the...
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    United States Civil Service Commission Federal Woman's Award and University of Dayton Distinguished Alumni Award. A plaque in her honor remains at the...
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    Guyana, and Lesotho. among other assignments. She received the Federal Woman's Award in 1974 for her achievements. Boorady was born in Dunkirk, New York...
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    In 1963 Makel was one of the six recipients of the Federal Woman's Award, presented to career federal employees who made significant contributions to their...
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    February 27, 1990) was an American social worker. She received the Federal Woman's Award in 1971 for her work on community services for disabled veterans...
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    Nina Bencich Woodside (category Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania alumni)
    Robert E. (April 1968). "The Federal Woman's Award". Civil Service Journal. 8: 22, 26. "7 FEDERAL WORKERS WIN WOMAN'S AWARD". The New York Times. 1968-02-12...
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    Netherlands for the United States Department of State. She received the Federal Woman's Award in 1964. Cold War scholar Giles Scott-Smith described her as "one...
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  • the recipients of the Federal Woman's Award, and she chaired the committee that produced a 1967 report "Federal Woman's Award Study Group on Careers...
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    Office of United Nations Political Affairs in 1965, and won the Federal Woman's Award in 1967. Elizabeth Ann Brown was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter...
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    specialist. She was one of the first six annual recipients of the Federal Woman's Award, in 1961. In 1968, she retired as director of the Office of Regional...
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  • Award for her distinguished service. In 1973 she received the Federal Woman's Award from President Richard Nixon and the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award...
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    Charlotte Moore Sitterly (category Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy)
    Fellows, one of only five women in the class of 115. Federal Woman's Award (1961) William F. Meggers Award of the Optical Society (1972) Bruce Medal (1990)...
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    1914 – June 23, 2005) was an American cryptanalyst. She won the Federal Woman's Award in 1969, and was posthumously inducted into the NSA Hall of Honor...
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  • of Federal Woman's Award Study Group Penelope H. Thunberg, President Johnson confirms he "considered the initial report of the Federal Woman's Award Study...
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    She was director of the federal Office for Civil Rights, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson. She won the Federal Woman's Award in 1968 for her work on school...
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    (April–June 1970). "The Tenth Annual Federal Woman's Award". Civil Service Journal. 10: 25. "Federal Woman's Award Winners Cry Discrimination". Times-Advocate...
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    for the Advancement of Science. In 1964, she received the Federal Woman's Award, an award for women who had exemplary professional service in the United...
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  • the first woman appointed an assistant commissioner in the Treasury Department. She was one of six in 1975 to receive the Federal Woman's Award, and in...
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    '66) – Member of the United States Tariff Commission (1965–1969); Federal Woman's Award recipient Marianne Hirsch (A.B. 1970, Ph.D. 1975) – William Peterfield...
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    Bracken was presented the Federal Woman's Award as the third highest ranking woman in the Foreign Service and the "only woman Officer Director in the Department's...
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    Papers 1927-1977". National Library of Medicine. "Remarks at the Federal Woman's Award Ceremony | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb...
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    64: 344–345. Bibcode:1959AJ.....64R.344R. doi:10.1086/108038. Federal Woman's Award – 1962 One of 100 Most Important Young People, Life magazine – 1962...
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  • Retrieved 5 April 2023. "Army Nominates 6 Employed in R&D for Annual Federal Woman's Award". Army Research & Development Newsmagazine. 12: 18. January–February...
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    aged 90 years, in St. Louis. In 1974, Skelly received the Federal Woman's Award. She was awarded the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Medal from her alma mater...
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    other corporate boards. She died on March 28, 2012. Davis won the Federal Woman's Award in 1972. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering...
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    Service (1962) Federal Woman's Award (1963) Department of Defense Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service (1964) Woman of the Year Award, Jackson Business...
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    D.C. Cason was nominated for the Federal Woman's Award in 1971, and received a Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1974. She retired from Army civilian...
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