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WORLD CONFERENCE DRAWS 500 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

The largest gathering .of women engineers and scientists ever to take place will convene during the week of June 15-21 at the United Engineering Center in New York. Registration of delegates from more than 30 countries overseas and all 50 states is expected to top 500. The First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists is being sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers. It seeks to call attention of educators and student guidance counselors to the engineering and science talent among young women that has been largely wasted in the past but is needed for the future. Papers scheduled for presentation, many by engineers from abroad, will illustrate the diversity of engineering work being performed by women and help create public understanding of the important role of the engineer, Beatrice A. Hicks, Conference Director, said. (Technical Conference Prog., Pg. 2) Conference preparations have shed new light on the numbers of women in professional engineering and where they are working throughout the world. Starting with only 40 names outside the U.S., the Committee has invited 1500 women. USSR SENDING FOUR WOMEN TO CONFERENCE Four women, representative of professional engineering in Russia will be attending the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists from June 15 to 21. Thejr are: Mrs. A. Dobrynin, wife of the Ambassador to the United States, who is an aeronautical engineer; Mrs. G. Frolova, attache at the Embassy in Washington; Dr. Galina N. Kadykova, an engineer on metals; and Dr. Zanaeda A. Filatova, Professor and Oceanologist at the Academy of Sciences, Moscow, who will present a paper on "The Role of Soviet Women in Research."

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Conference Registrations Exceed Expectations at SWE Headquarters. Ruth I. Shafer, Conference Chairman, shows Winifred D. Gifford, Executive Secretary, a check as Alva Matthews, N. Y. Section Chairman, and Christina E. Lammers, Finance Chairman, register delight.

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SWE The Society of Women Engineers is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to making known the need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education. Founded in 1950, the Society now has more than 700 members. Headquarters are in New York City at the United Engineering Center, opposite United Nations Park. The Society carries out these objectives:

1. To inform young women, their parents, counselors, and the public in general of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and of the opportunities open to them 2. To assist women engineers in readying themselves for a return to active work after temporary retirement 3. To serve as a center of information on women in engineering 4. To encourage women engineers to attain high levels of educational and professional achievements.

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Pauline Frederic, NBC Reporter to the United Nations, will be the Banquet Speaker, Saturday, June 20.