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Caption: SWE - Proceedings of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
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Actually, it would seem to be engineers and scientists who prod the world into progress. Monday, many of you visited the World's Fair. Twenty-five years ago another World's Fair occupied that exact site. What were its marvels - not yet reality? A television set, mock-ups of highways with clover-leaves, a computer — all products of scientific and engineering knowledge and vision — and all, by now, a casual part of everyday life. Judging from this present World's Fair, your engineering marvels will, in twenty-five more years, have us in undersea hotels, in jungle motels made possible by a tree-eating pavement-laying monster, and werll probably be flying to the moon in super-supersonic planes! I hope, now that you are here, that you will visit other parts of New York State because, although it is an industrial and business giant, it also has large open spaces — mountains, lakes, seashore, farmland, and vineyards« As the map in your kit shows, there are roads leading everywhere; our 500-mile Thruway, the world's greatest superhighway, leads to the nation's biggest big of its kind: Niagara Falls. May I say in closing that although I am sure not one of you here is at all concerned about public appreciation for your achievements — since I know each of you finds in her work the deep satisfaction derived from doing what you like to do and doing it well — you all must enjoy the sense of accomplishment inherent in building forward, building new. But we do appreciate your accomplishments, and for prodding the world into progress, thank you. Ill-70
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