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W E L C O M E TO THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS Dr. Beatrice A. Hicks, P. E. Conference Director President, Newark Controls Company Newark, New Jersey

It is my great privilege to be able to welcome you to this First International Conference where we will consider the present and future opportunities in engineering and science and how we may encourage women to use and to enjoy these opportunities, and thereby to serve the progress of all peoples.

This Conference has brought together men and women to exchange information and to create new patterns and new plans for the activities of women in enginee ing and science. We represent over 30 Nations and all 50 of the United States ; of America. We represent education, government, industry, professional guidanc personnel placement, and management, as well as engineering and science. But most important, we represent those people who recognize the need for progress and unselfishly give of their time and their means toward these goals. I should like to pay particular tribute to those men who have contributed so largely to the progress leading up to this Conference. To realize and undei stand the foresight and concern with human needs of outstanding men from the major technical societies, the International Program of the Engineers Joint Council, many of our major engineering schools, the foundations concerned with; education, and important sections of industry has been one of the most rewardiii experiences of our years of work. I sincerely welcome each of you to this history-making Conference. We hope that you will receive from it information and inspiration, that you will make new friends and that you will contribute to it your own experiences and suggestions. We hope that you will enjoy this week and that it will live in your memory as a symbol of progress in the work we are trying to accomplish. Our Keynote Speaker is herself a symbol of progress. As a world renowned management consultant, she has spent her life in the studies, planning and activities that create the opportunities for progress. Born in Oakland, California, In 1878, and educated at the University of California and Brown University, Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth pioneered with her husband, Frank Gilbreth, in the field of motion study that became the profession of Industrial Engineering. Through the ensuing years she continued to work for progress in the engineering management areas. In 1954 she was the first woman to receive the Washington Medal, awarded for her outstanding contributions to engineering and scientific management. Among her many honors she holds the Gantt Medal, the Wallace Clark Award, the Award of the National Institute of Social Science, The Gilbreth Medal, and ove twenty honorary degrees. 1-5