Women engineers plan International conference

The New York Section of the Society of Women Engineers has announced the appointment of Dr. Beatrice A. Hicks as Conference Director of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists to be held in June 1964 at the United Engineering Center in New York. Miss Ruth Shafer will be Operations Chairman. Dr. Hicks is president and Director of Engineering, Newark Control Co., Miss Shafer is a design engineer of air conditioning, heating, and ventilation for naval and other ships for Gibbs and Cox, Inc., Naval Architects in their Hull Division. Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, president of Gilbreth, Inc., international industrial engineers and management consultants, is consultant and keynoter for the conference.