Show h t tA A V a 5 3 R i I j VERY VER Y WONDERFUL Mrs Airs Lois Bernhardt wife of vet finds ends housekeeping thrilling even after she typed Japanese surrender terms Robert Bernhardt husband attends Iowa State college at Ames NOW r ow A HOMEBODY From the World Stage T To an Iowa Kitchen AMES IO Stenographer A. A housekeeper or farm wife Mrs Lois Bernhardt can always recall the glamorous part she played on the world stage during World War II for she can always look lo k back on these experiences o- o f Typed Ty d out the Japanese sur sur- surrender surrender surrender render terms hours before they were made public J Typed out the charter of the the United Nations organization when it was being drawn up Attended the Potsdam Pots dam Big Three conference as secretary to Secretary of State James F. F Byrnes Mrs Bernhardt formerly Lois of Schaller Iowa who gave up her exciting career for love is currently employed in the Iowa State purchasing office while her husband a childhood sweetheart studies for a degree in dairy indus indus- try The looking good-looking Iowa girl quit quither quither quither her job with Secretary Byrnes last November to marry Robert Bern Bern- Bernhardt Bernhardt Bernhardt hardt with whom she attended high school at and traded duties of an international nature for the prosaic job of darning her hus hus- husbands husband's husbands husband's husbands husband's bands band's socks keeping house and helping out the family budget But the over change-over hasn't dulled the memory of a wedding where Secretary Byrnes gave the bride away or of a glamorous job where the secrets of international affairs were w re everyday routine After graduating from the Amer Amer- American American American I ican Institute of Business in hi Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines Mrs Bernhardt took a job with the war department dep in Wash Wash- ington From there it was just a astep astep astep step to a position as stenographer in the th state department The first lob job I had in the state department was the typing of the Japanese surrender terms she said We uWe knew of the surrender before the announcement was made but we had to stay in the office The Th halls were full of reporters If any of us had gone out they would have known it the minute they saw our faces Previously she had attended the San Francisco conference where she typed the charter of the United Nations organization I worked on it night and day un un- until until un- un until til it was finished she said There were other secretaries from all the theother theother theother other nations doing the same thing in all the other languages And when the Potsdam confer confer- conference conference conference ence was called Mrs Mrs Bernhardt again was chosen to to do the secre secre- secretarial secretarial secretarial work She acted as personal secretary for Byrnes Her husband is a former navy flier who saw service in South America on submarine anti-submarine patrol |