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FORTl-'i wESTEflr . u J-. !'w EfitSlTY No. '- 1i..k.AH·"'· THE WORKS 4 -- 81 PROGRAM AUG ;;: 1'r:l5 -- Works Progress AdmJnistra.tfon For immediate Release Friday, August 2, 1935. Hopkins annomwes Southern regional director for Women's Division of WPA. Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, today announced the appoint- nent of Mrs. Robert S. Ralston as regional director, women 1s activities, in Region #3. lhe is attached to the Women's Di vis:i.on of the Works Progress Administration which is lirected by Assistant Administrator , Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, and is assigned to tl1e 'ield staff of Mr. Malcolm J. Miller. fj eld. representative of Works Progress ldministrat ion. The States in Region #3 r:i.re: Alaba...'11a, Arkansas .1 Florida, Georgia, ,ouisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina.; T,Jnriessee, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, nd Oklahoma. Mrs. Ralston served for two years as the only woITl.'.ln member of a speci'.:l.l ta.te Legislature CoLIDJ.ittee of twenty-five appointed. by Gove:rnor Whitfield of ississippi to study social and economic conditicns in tha Stat0 and. to mo.ke rccomenda.tions to the Legiela.ture for re11edia.l legislation based on the committee's indings. :1 She was the director and secretCJ.ry of nn economic survey of Mississippi 1928-30. lx years. She was a director of the Misstssippi Sta.to Board of Development for She is a charter member and a me::1ber of the boa.rd of directors of the Lssissippi Conference of Socio.l Work, which is the first o.nd only organized move- lnt for social welfo.re in the Sto.te. Mrs. Ra.lston reorga..viizod the Ch::.i.mb0r of Commerce of Coo.hon.a County and .a.:rksdo.le in 1928 and ho.s served as exocuti vo secretary o.nd treo.surer to the ~esent time. iven years. She organized the first Dolto. Cotton Festi vnl ::md promoted it for For six yea.rs she ;utc University a.nd Colleges. WCI.S o. uer.:ber of the bo.:ird of trustees of Missisc.ippi She is ,::. p~cst prosi.dunt of the Mississippi Federc.ticn 'W;:imen' s Clubs nnd r.1e::iber of th0 bo.:ircl of directorn vf the Gener:J.l Federation of Uen's Clubs, a cho.rter member of Leo.3ue of Ancrico.n Penwomen, o.nd former editor 1 id business mcJ.nagor of the Mississippi Wann.n's Mo.go.zine. -0- - - Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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