Miss National Bureau of Standards
The earliest example I can find of a young woman being named 'Miss National Bureau of Standards' is in 1968. The contest continued at least until the mid-1970s.
The responsibility of Miss NBS was to "help to promote the standards employee benefit association membership drive, and assist in publicizing other functions."
The responsibility of Miss NBS was to "help to promote the standards employee benefit association membership drive, and assist in publicizing other functions."
Scranton Times-Tribune - Nov 5, 1967
Hartford Courant - Jan 31, 1971
Tampa Tribune - Mar 10, 1974
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Bettijoyce Breen, the woman in the last picture, wasn't just a pretty face. She was a coauthor of "Omnidata : an interactive system for data retrieval, statistical and graphical analysis, and database management : a user's manual."
Posted by ges on 09/21/24 at 09:15 PM
ges -- excellent find. And if you just happened to know that, I'm even more impressed!
You inspired me to find some more info about Bettijoyce Breen:
Bettijoyce Breen joined NBS in 1969 as a computer programmer for the Office of Standard Reference Data after receiving her B.S. in chemistry from William and Mary College. After completion of the work on OMNIDATA, she supervised the introduction of the next generation of computerized typesetting technology into NBS and later became head of the OSRD Data Systems Development Group. This group helped the various data centers in NBS and elsewhere to automate their opera- tions and oversaw the preparation of database packages for public dissemination. She received an M.S. in Chemical Information from American University in 1975 and became active in the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society, serving as both Treasurer and Chair of the Division. In 1990, as Bettijoyce Breen Lide, she joined the NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP), where she set up the first ATP management information system. As an ATP pro- gram manager, she established the program on Informa- tion Infrastructure for Healthcare and later headed the Information Technology and Applications Office. In 1999 she received the George Uriano Award of NIST for fostering industrial-government interactions.
Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/sp958-lide/254-257.pdf
You inspired me to find some more info about Bettijoyce Breen:
Bettijoyce Breen joined NBS in 1969 as a computer programmer for the Office of Standard Reference Data after receiving her B.S. in chemistry from William and Mary College. After completion of the work on OMNIDATA, she supervised the introduction of the next generation of computerized typesetting technology into NBS and later became head of the OSRD Data Systems Development Group. This group helped the various data centers in NBS and elsewhere to automate their opera- tions and oversaw the preparation of database packages for public dissemination. She received an M.S. in Chemical Information from American University in 1975 and became active in the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society, serving as both Treasurer and Chair of the Division. In 1990, as Bettijoyce Breen Lide, she joined the NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP), where she set up the first ATP management information system. As an ATP pro- gram manager, she established the program on Informa- tion Infrastructure for Healthcare and later headed the Information Technology and Applications Office. In 1999 she received the George Uriano Award of NIST for fostering industrial-government interactions.
Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/sp958-lide/254-257.pdf
Posted by Alex on 09/22/24 at 07:46 AM
Can't say I happened to know it, but when an unusual name appears here, I sometimes google it.
Posted by ges on 09/22/24 at 01:34 PM
Of course, *the* Standard Person is Oliver Smoot.
Posted by Richard Bos on 09/28/24 at 01:05 PM
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