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Show tional's first chairman of Civic Participation, one year one year as Na as National Legiflation chairman, and tional third vice .president, As an observer, Miss Cunningham participated in the 1955 International Board Meeting in Berne, Switzerland, and the 1961 Conference of Business and Professional Women of the Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As alternate delegate, she .attended the tional Congress in Oslo, Norway. an 1962 Interna A recent Presidential appointee to the nine-member Water Pollution Control Board of America, Mrs. Bur nette Y. Hennington of Jackson, Mississippi, is our 196465 National recording secretary. Concluding her third consecutive term as Mississippi's convention chairman, this successful civic leader and self-employed realtor has state and National levels. served the Federation on local, During her term of office as National Legislation chairman, she actively supported Congressional bills which were designed to improve the status of women, and helped to promote the establishment of a Governor's Prior to the National Federation's dissolution of re gions, she served two years as Membership chairman and conducted membership drives. At the time of the dissolution, she was holding the office of secretary for A graduate of Sterling College, Miss Cunningham earned her LL.B. degree at the University of Nebraska where she wrote a thesis on "The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." This paper was published in Woman's CPA Journal and The Republican committee assignments, serving twice on the Nominating Committee. She has been National Civic Participation chairman, and assisted in one of the first Leadership Conferences sponsored by the National Federation. Commission on the Status of Women in Nebraska. Woman's Newspaper. Widely known throughout Nebraska, Miss Cunningham is frequently the featured speaker at various civic and professional organizations. Among those organizations in which she holds memberships are: The National As sociation o-f Women Lawyers, American Association of University Women, the Kappa Beta Pi legal sorority, and the McCook Chamber of Commerce. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women. . BURNETTE Y. HENNINGTON National Recording Secretary MABEL R. McCLANAHAN Mabel R. McClanahan is secretary and business man of Crane Engineering Sales, Inc., of Appleton, Wisconsin. A former owner-manager of a business serv ice and a stenography agency, her background in ager public finance and business-related fields includes experience in the areas of accounting, purchasing, personnel em rela ployment, cost analysis and customer-employee she assists a local attorney and CPA tions. Seasonally, in the preparation of income tax returns. the National Federation, Mrs. McClanahan has been treasurer, Finance chairman for two terms, and she recording secretary. In the Wisconsin Federation, has been recording secretary, first vice president and' com president, and has served as chairman of many In the North Central region, she has been mittees. recording secretary; and in the Fox Valley District, vice In president and charter member of the Valley Club. addition, she has held numerous offices in the Valley and Appleton Clubs including those of president, secre tary, and treasurer. Mrs. McClanahan actively participated in National leadership conferences in Chicago in 1962, and in Cleve land and St. Louis in 1963. She has been chairman of the Federation-Foundation relationships, and state feder ation chairman of the committee which was instrumental in effecting the creation of Wisconsin's Governor's Com mission on the Status of Women. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the and Wisconsin Road Appleton Taxpayers' Association side Council, and a member of the Appleton Memorial for two years as Seal Hospital Auxiliary. She served of the Wiscon Sale chairman for the Appleton chapter sin Anti-T.B. Association. Who in ·Wisconsin Mrs. McClanahan is listed in Who's Who Among American Women. and Who's for AUGUST, 1964 On the National level she has filled various special Mrs. Hennington is a past president of: Mississippi Women's Cabinet of Public Affairs, Hinds County Asso ciation for Mental Health, Mississippi's Women's Council, and National Association of Real Estate Boards .. She is a member of: Jackson Board of Realtors, Mississippi Board of Realtors, and Women's Council of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. citation from the U.S. Public Health The recipient of a Service for setting up the nation's first Water Pollution Control 'Conference for Women, she is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who in World Commerce and Industry. National Third Vice President Within the second year. KATHERINE T. KING National Treasurer Our new National treasurer, Katherine T. King, of of Webster, New York, is business education chairman Eastridge High School in Rochester. She obtained her M.S. degree at Syracuse University and has studied at NYU, State University and Gregg College. Her pro fessional background includes tenures as secretarial studies chairman, associate professor, and women's dean at New York State University. A BPW member for 16 years, Mrs. King is a charter member of the Webster Club, a former member of the Rochester Club, and a charter member and past president of the Delhi Club. She has served as state president, first vice president, recording secretary, District 6 di and restor, Personal Development chairman. On the National level, she has served on the Finance Committee. Mrs. King has attended Biennials in St. Louis, Seattle and Philadelphia, and was a member of the Rules Com mittee at the Convention in Chicago. She was a mem ber of the Nominating Committee' at Los Angeles, an observer at the Conference of the Business and Profes sional Women of the Americas in Puerto Rico, and has attended International Congresses in Montreal and Paris. Well known for her work on state committees for Teacher Recognition Day and Competitive Bidding, she has contributed to the progress of her New York Feder ation by compiling a Program planners' notebook, orga nizing an economics conference, founding the Webster and Walton Clubs, and instigating the first state-wide Leadership Conference at Syracuse University. In 1962, she attended the President's Committee Meeting on Em ployment of the Handicapped. . Mrs. King is listed in Who's Who of American Women. 27 |
