Show y Resource for Future Progress JAN PETERSON World News Editor resource for P n-eat spoke re Assistant of Labor and Director Wren's Bureau Spencer feed by the University Faculty Women's Mrs Peterson emphasized the help of women in the great achievement of Astronaut John H Glenn GOAL is to make use of the tremendous investment made by women while in Their usefulness must not be wasted after cap and gown added a former Utah holds the highest executive women's position in the present administration and is a world authority on women in Her lecture to a select audience of civic and educational leaders of the state at Orson Spencer Hall Auditorium last night precedes her first meeting of President Kennedy's Commission of the Status of Women which will take place in several The following a banquet in Peterson's honor in the Panorama Room of the Student was attended by some interested men and Born in in Peterson received her Bachelor of Arts degree in her Master of Arts from Columbia University in She taught in both public and private schools for 12 In the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America appointed Peterson as assistant Director of She held several posts with until 1948 when she went abroad with her a foreign service while represented the American trade union movement at several international conferences and also worked with trade union confederations in and In 1958 she became Legislative Representative of the Industrial Union Department of the Such experience made her a valuable adviser to the U.S. Government delegation at the International Laber Organization Conference at in Later she went to Sweden with other officials of the Labor Department to study labor market policy and labor management Peterson was nominated Assistant Secretary of Labor by John F. Kennedy August The Senate confirmed her appointment August and she was sworn in by Secretary Arthur J. August Peterson's Oliver A. is a labor adviser in the State Department's Bureau of African Together the Peterson's make a proud team and a credit I to v |