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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy visits with winners of the 1963 Federal Woman’s Award for outstanding contributions to government. Left to right: Katie Louchheim (accompanying the award recipients), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chairwoman of the Federal Woman’s Award Board of Trustees; Bessie Margolin, Associate Solicitor for the Department of Labor; Dr. Eleanor L. Makel, Supervisory Medical Officer of Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital under the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Verna C. Mohagen, Director of Personnel for the Soil Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture; President Kennedy; Blanche W. Noyes, Air Marketing Specialist for the Centers and Towers Project Branch of the Installation and Material Service in the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA); Eleanor C. Pressly, Head of the Vehicles Section in the Spacecraft Integration and Sounding Rocket Division at the Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Katharine Mather, Chief of the Petrography Section in the Special Investigations Branch at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Department of the Army. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.