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1935.

No-4-64

UNIVERSITY
L IBRARY

THE WORKS PROGB.ft.M

----Wcrks Progress Ad.ministration-----

For Immediate Release
Monday, July 29, 1935.

Hopkins announces regional director for Women's Division of WPA.
Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress AQ~inistrator, today announced the
apl)ointment of Mrs. Lula Martin Mciver Scott of Greensboro, North Carolina,
as regional director of wom·e n1s activities in the New England States.
Mrs. Scott is attached to the Women's Division of which Mrs. Ellens.
Woodward, Assistant Administrator, is the head, and is one of five women
regional directors who will serve under Mrs. Woodward throughout the
country.

She is assigned to the staff of R. C. Eranion, field representa,-.

tive of the Works Progress Administration in Region #1, which includes
Maine, Vermont, New Har.ipshire, Massachusetts, New York, District of Columbia,
Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Mrs. Scott has been a field representative in the Women's Division of
the Federal Emergency Relief AQ~inistration since September 1933.

She

served as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of North
Carolina and in 1927 was the organizer ·and manager of the work relief
program for women in Greensboro.

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