MARY LINDSAY ELMENDORF, Ph. D.

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EDUCATION: Ph.D. Anthropology: Union Graduate School, Antioch, 1972

Certificate, School of Relief & Reconstruction, Haverford College, PA, 1944.

Graduate St. Paul (N.C.) High School, 1933 (Valedictorian)

Education (See endnote 1)

1947 Nobel Peace Prize recipient of group award to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Volunteers and the British Society of Friends for their joint work during and after World War II in Europe.

1959 Town square named "Plaza Mary Elmendorf" in San Mateo, Mexico, recognizing contributions of CARE/ AFSC to potable water project.

1959 Nominated for Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico's highest honor for foreigners.

1960 CARE Certificate of Merit "In recognition of more than eight years of devotion in the creation of good will between the people of Mexico and the people of the United States."

1960 Diploma awarded by APEI "en reconocimiento por su entusiasta y desintevesada cooperacion en la obra de esta Asociacion", (La Association pro-Entendimiento Internacional/ Business Council for International Understanding, BCIU), Mexico.

1960 Scroll of Recognition, presented by the Board of Directors of the American Society of Mexico, "in recognition of outstanding services to humanity", Mexico.

1960 Award presented by Ambassador Robert Hill for "eight years of outstanding performance as the first chief of CARE mission in Mexico".

1960 Awarded gold medal as a "Friend of Mexican Youth" by the Ministry of Agriculture, Mexico.

1967 Appointed by the Governor to the First Florida Commission on the Status of Women.

1967 Invited by US Department of State to travel to the Dominican Republic as a Visiting Specialist.

1968 Invited by Secretary of State Tom Adams to serve on the coordinating committee of the Florida-Columbia Alliance

1968 Appointed by William Carter, Director for the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, to serve on the planning committee of the 1972 Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholars Conference for the Southeastern region.

1972 Honorary Alumna of New College, Charter Class of 1965

1972-3 Ford Foundation Fellow as member of the First Task Force on Women

1979-1982 Member Research Advisory Committee (RAC) of US Agency for International Development.

1979 The World Who's Who of Women, Certificate of Merit, 5th Edition

1981 Praxis Award "For excellence in translating Anthropological Knowledge into Action". by Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA).

1982 Margaret Mead Award "For applying principles of anthropology to the resolution of issues of contemporary human concern and influencing a concerned public outside of anthropology", first time presented by both the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, March.

1992 Nominated as a candidate for the Bacardi Family Visiting Scholar Chair at the University of Florida for the Center for Latin American Studies

1993 Distinguished Alumna Award "In recognition of outstanding contributions to mankind through the Field of Anthropology" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1996 Award presented "in recognition of outstanding public service in support of the United Nations" by the United Nations Association of the United States of America Sarasota-Manatee Chapter.

1996 Decorated by SULABH International Social Service Organization, New Delhi, India "for help in incorporating the important roles of women into the planning , execution, effective use and maintenance of appropriate technologies for excreta disposal". Additional expression of thanks for the donation of collection of articles, technical reports, etc for the library of The Museum of the Toilet.

1997 Outstanding Alumna Award, Queens College, as "Outstanding member of class of 1937", Charlotte, North Carolina.

1998, 1988, 1978, 2003 International Roster of Women Scholars

2000-2001 The Who's Who of American Women 22nd Edition

2000 The World's Who's Who of Women; Marquis Who's Who of American Women

2000-1 The American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year

2002 Unanimously voted Fellow status by Board of Society for Applied Anthropology

2003 Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in America 57th Edition

2003-2004 Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 7^th Edition

Note: Unusual honors

1977 Given Top Security Clearance by President Jimmy Carter as member of official US Delegation to United Nations Conference on Water, Mar del Plata.

2000-2003

Wenner Gren Foundation awarded an Historical Archives Program grant in November 2000, and extended it to the end of 2003 to help prepare additional papers and materials covering "the most recent years of her career" to add to the existing repository of the Mary Elmendorf Collection at the University of Florida Smathers Libraries: Special Collections. The finding guide to the Mary Elmendorf Papers available on the Internet:

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/Elmendorf.htm

1997

University of North Texas, Travel grant from the Media Center to return to Chan Kom , Yucatan with Alicia Re Cruz and video crew to document the reaction of the villagers to the showing of the ethnographic films taken by Elmendorf twenty years earlier before the opening of the road

1993-94

Wenner Gren Foundation awarded a Historical Archives Program grant in December 1993, renewed in July 1994 to aid archiving of Mayan material in the Mary Elmendorf collection at the University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville. Fifteen of the seventeen reels of Super 8 film were found suitable for inclusion in the original gift and sent to the Smithsonian along with recent video taken twenty years later of the reactions and comments of the villagers themselves. "The fact that these movies were taken at the same time as the black and white portraits of the, Nine Mayan Women: A Village Faces Change makes it easier to identify the people within their homes and communities and observe changes in them and their lifestyles. The archiving of duplicate material on the Maya in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution will make them more readily accessible and enhance the utility of the ethnographic film donated to the Human Areas Film Archives.

1993

Ford Foundation Grant to return to Mexico to present the background materials collected during the 1972-73 Ford Foundation Grant along with an annotated copy of "The Many Worlds of Women: Mexico" to the new Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Program at El Colegio de Mexico, September.

1987

Wenner Gren Foundation Grant (with John Landgraf) to accept the invitation to be guests of the Sabah State Museum in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, where Landgraf's collection of field notes, research materials and artifacts on the Muruts during research with a Fulbright grant in the 50's, when this area was British North Borneo, had been donated. We were housed in the guest apartment at the Museum while we cooperated with museum staff as the materials were being catalogued and arranged for maximum use and display in the new building. A trip with a video crew was arranged for a return to the field and visits with his key informants. June - August. See article "And a Rural Eden" Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) Newsletter: Vol. II, No. 1, September

1976-78

Research Institute for the Study of Man Grant with support from USAID to do research with Alfonso Villa Rojas on Fertility Determinants Among the Maya, examining variables related to changing family size, age of marriage, etc. Other researchers included Hilaria Mass Coli, and Deborah Merrill. Brigette Jordan also joined me in the first Mayan Midwife training course at the invitation of the National Indian Institute (INI), which was co-sponsored by the Mexican Ministry of Health.

1972-1974

Ford Foundation Fellow to return to Mexico to prepare an annotated bibliography of materials, published and unpublished, on the roles of women in Latin America as a part of their First Task Force on Women. Later, reduced at my request, to Mexico.

Also prepared a list of women writers, researchers, professionals with addresses, etc as well as a list of projects involving women in Mexico.

Attended two conferences:

The Problems of Indian Women, OAS/CIM, Guatemala, June 1973 and

Man in the Americas, AAAS/CONACYT Mexico, July 1973.

Prepared paper "Women, Their Changing Roles- Mexico and Beyond" for presentation at the 7^th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, October 1973 which was revised as "The Changing Roles and Status of Women: Mexico" as a report to the First Task Force on Women of the Ford Foundation, November 27, 1973.

Submitted final revision of "The Many Worlds of Women: Mexico" to Janet Giele of the Radcliffe Institute for publication in Women and Society: Roles and Status in Eight Countries, September 19794

1968

1967

State Department invitation to travel to the Dominican Republic as a Visiting Specialist to congratulate President Balaguer on his election and for nominating women as governors of all the provinces in, as he said, "Our only hope for peace". The terms of reference were to consult with women leaders and explore ways of assisting women's organizations in the fields of citizenship education and voluntary community services. Later it was expanded to include meeting with men and women, at diverse social levels, in the fields of community development and youth activities.

Visited 22most of the 26 provinces, met with the governors, delivered the offer from the League of Women Voters, through the Overseas Education Fund (OEF), to provide workshops to help them use their new powers more effectively. Through the Minister of Labor, also a woman, an official request was made and a two-year project proposal prepared and approved, with US AID support offered in advance.

Note: see "A Benchmark Study of a Title IX Activity" by Thomas J. Scanlon. 1971. According to this report, "In 1963, two OEF consultants spent two weeks in the DR giving short cursillos to the men and women in Santo Domingo. The program which Mrs. Elmendorf recommended accomplished in one month more than had been accomplished in the four previous years" (p. 91).

1965

IBM travel grant to explore possibilities of a Peace Corps program in Egypt, including acceptance of Jewish volunteers and suggestion for potential projects grant from Tom Watson of IBM. Report sent to Sergeant Shriver, Director of Peace Corps (See Peace Corps archives).

1962

The Radcliffe Institute invited a proposal on "The Roles of Women in Peaceful Social Change", designed to review the important parts played by women from all levels of society in maximizing impacts of technical assistance during my nine years as the Director of Care in Mexico. Proposal was rejected. Note: 5 years later, I revised this same proposal as the basis for research for my Ph.D.

1960

Ford Foundation Fund for Advancement of Education Invited by Vice President Alvin Eurich to accompany John Elmendorf, Vice President and Dean of Mexico City College on a six-week tour of colleges and universities across the USA to evaluate and recommend additions to their overseas studies programs. (See Ford Foundation and New College archives)

1959

Encyclopedia Britannica. Invited by William Benton to set up a trip for and accompany Adlai Stevenson to a Mexican village near an archaeological site during his exploratory trip to Latin America preceding his announcement of intent to campaign for the presidency. Stevenson, who was on the CARE Board made the presentation of sewing machines from The Women's Club in Hyde Park, Illinois to the Club de Mujeres in Mitla, Oaxaca (See Note and also archives of UF and CARE)

1962

The Radcliffe Institute invited a proposal on "The Roles of Women in Peaceful Social Change", designed to review the important parts played by women from all levels of society in maximizing impacts of technical assistance during my nine years as the Director of Care in Mexico. Proposal was rejected.

2000 Nine Mayan Women: A Village Faces Change, Questia Media, Inc., at www.questia.com, February.

1990 International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation and Women's Involvement on behalf of the Steering Committee for Cooperative Action for the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, Volume 5 World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva.

1986 "A Mid-Term evaluation of USAID-Financed Projects to Agua Del Pueblo and CARE Guatemala", (with Carlos Solares, Richardo Alvarado, Elena Hurtado, and Lis Vielman) prepared for USAID Mission in the Republic of Guatemala, International Science and Technology Institute (ISTI) Washington, D.C.(published in Spanish and English)

1984 Role of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation: Implications for Education with Raymond Isely, UNESCO Notes and Comments, n.s. 150, April.

1984 Strategy Paper II- How to Involve Women? (With Yansheng Ma) for the Women's Task Force of the IDWSSD Steering Committee, UNDP, New York.

1983 Water and Sanitation- Related Health Constraints on Women's Contributions to the Economic Development of Communities, with Raymond Isely, WASH Technical Report 17, Arlington, VA.

1982 The Role of Women as Participants and Beneficiaries in Water Supply and Sanitation Programs, with Raymond Isely, WASH Technical Report 11, Arlington, VA.

1981 Women, Water, and the Decade, WASH Technical Report 6, Water and Sanitation for Health, Arlington, VA.

1981 Women, Water, and Waste: Beyond Access, WASH Technical Report 7, Arlington, VA .

1980 Socio-Cultural Aspects of Water Supply and Excreta Disposal with Patricia Buckles. Vol. 5: Appropriate Technology in Water Supply and Sanitation. The World Bank, Washington, DC. (Published in three languages and reprinted several times)

Note: Distributed in green cover and widely distributed in the World Bank. It was translated into Spanish and approved for final publication after the case study on Haiti was eliminated, but the director of the project resigned before publication so it was never published. These case studies were the first prepared for the World Bank by outside anthropologists. They were widely circulated, read and used in the World Bank's Training Institute. Also the contributing anthropologists, including Frank Miller and Cynthia Cone, were invited to present their material at a Seminar held during WATER Week at the World Bank in the fall of 1979.

1978 Socio-cultural aspects of Excreta Disposal with Patricia Buckles in Energy, Water and Telecommunications Department ,Public Utilities Notes No.Res.15, "Appropriate Technology for Water Supply and Waste Disposal in Developing Countries" September 1978

1976 Nine Mayan Women: A Village Faces Change, Schenkman Publishing Co., John Wiley & Sons, NY, Cambridge, Mass. (Reprinted Schenkman Books, Rochester, VT 1985, 1992 and 2002)

1973 La Mujer Maya y el Cambio, SEP/ Setentas (Secretaria de Educacion Publica/ Ministry of Education), Mexico.

1972 The Mayan Woman and Change. CIDOC (Centro Intercultural de Documentacion/ Intercultural Center of Documentation) Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Articles

2003 "Women and Technological Change in Developing Countries: Lessons for the Maya". Chapter in Anthropology's Relevance in the Contemporary World: Essays by the Margaret Mead Award Recipients, edited by Jill Corbin. Forthcoming

2003 "The Many Worlds of Mayan Women" Chapter 3, and "Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research" Chapter 13 in Rights, Resources, Culture & Conservation in Maya Communities of Yucatan, Mexico., Edited by Betty B. Faust, E. N. Anderson and John G. Frazier (being reviewed by Greenwood Publishing)

2001 "Recuerdos del Pasado" en Homenaje al maesto Fernado Camara Barbachano, eds. Barba de Pina Chan, Beatriz, et al. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, pp.21-24.

2000 "Water is Life: A View Through the Eyes of Women", invited review paper presented at International Women's University, Hannover, Germany, August 2000 and published in their proceedings and on the web: http://www.Int-Frauenuni.de

1996 Invited participant at the U.S.Follow-Up to the U.N.Fourth World Conference on Women sponsored by the President's Interagency Council on Women at the White House, Washington, May, 1997. One of two women invited from the Gulf Coast of Florida.

1996 "Global to Local: Changing Strategies and Concepts" (with Jono Miller), in proceedings of Sarasota Town Hall on Maximizing Our Quality of Life in a Sustainable Environment, Pre-Habitat II, Sarasota, Florida.

1996 "From Beijing Back and On to Cairo." Newsletter, United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Gulf Coast Chapter, Vol. 1:3, 1-2.

1996 "Priorities, Challenges, and Strategies: A Feminine Perspective, 1975-1995". Pp. 7-11. In: Pickford, John (ed.), Reaching the Unreached: Challenges for the 21^st Century. Proceedings from the 22^nd WEDC Conference, New Delhi, India, 9-13 September. Loughborough, UK, Water, Engineering, and Development Centre.

1995 "Component III - Water Supply, Sanitation and Health", in Evaluation of the Public Services Improvement Project (519-0320), with Ronald Witherell, Lewis B. Taylor, James L. Roush, for USAID El Salvador for Cambridge Consulting Corporation, March.

1995 "The Road to Beijing and Back", Bradenton Herald, August. One of four articles published while I was a foreign correspondent during the Beijing Conference

1990 "Social Impacts of Water Supply Projects: NGO's and the Human Dimension." Published in the Proceedings of the International Forum S.O.S. Water is Life, OXFAM-Quebec, Montreal.

1987 "Women and Schistosomiasis," World Health, WHO, Geneva.

1987 "Water Quality and Women in Small Systems", pp. 131-141. Report on International Symposium on Small Systems for Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore.

1987 "Women, Water and Technological Change in Developing Countries" in Seminar on the Participation of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation Programs Manuscript Report 150e, ed. Zanstra, I. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

1987 "Women and Faeces Disposal-Lessons Learned at the Mid-DECADE Conference on Women" in Dialogue on Diarrrhoea ,Vol30, AHRTAG (Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group Ltd.England.)

1986 "Women as Decision-Makers," World Water, Grosvenor Press, Int.

1986 "A Mid-Term evaluation of USAID-Financed Projects to Agua Del Pueblo and CARE Guatemala", (with Carlos Solares, Richardo Alvarado, Elena Hurtado, and Lis Vielman) prepared for USAID Mission in the Republic of Guatemala, International Science and Technology Institute (ISTI) Washington, D.C.(published in Spanish and English)

1986 "Water, Waste and Women: The Hidden Dimension." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Water and Wastewater Management in Asia. Singapore.

1984 "The Softer Side of Software." In Proceedings of the 10th WEDC Conference, Water and Sanitation in Asia and the Pacific, Singapore, August. (Loughborough)

1984 "Women, Water, and Waste: Keys to Development," proceedings of IRC/WHO Symposium, The Local Decade: Men, Women, and Agencies, Amsterdam, May.

1984 "Pertinent Research: Generalization and Linkages Drawn from a Preliminary Review of the Literature on Women in Water and Sanitation." In report of International Conference on Women and Water in Cairo sponsored by INSTRAW.

1983 "Women as Managers of Human Waste: Training for New Roles and Retraining for Old," Proceedings of International Seminar on Human Waste Management, Institute of Housing Studies, Rotterdam, and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Vol. 1, pp. 114-1243.

1983 "Public and Private Roles of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation" with Raymond Isely, Human Organization, Vol. 42, No. 3. pp 195-204.

1983 "Community Participation, A Human Dimension with Promise and Problems", Chapter VII, Safe Water and Sanitation for Health: A Reference Manual. Institute for Rural Water/ AID.

1982 "Women: The Underused Human Resource". Education Medico y Salud, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 463-483. Pan America Health Organization/ Regional Office World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Washington, DC.

1982 Water and Sanitation-Related Health Constraints to the Economic Development of Communities. In Proceedings of Conference on Women, Health and International Development. Michigan State University, Lansing.

1982 "The Role of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation" with Raymond Isely, World Health Forum, 3:2, 227-230,WHO, Geneva.

1981 "Human Resources Development in Water Supply and Sanitation" with J. Austin and D. Warner in Proceedings of the 7th WEDC Conference, Water, People and Waste in Developing Countries, Loughborough, England.

1981 "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access", ibid.

1981 "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access, revised in Health Needs of World's Poor Women, (pp. 92-95) ED. Patricia W. Blair, Equity Policy Center (EPOC), Washington, 1991.

1981 "Assessing Community Energy Needs: Data Gathering and Dialogue", Development Community Report, Vol. 33, pp. 3-5, Academy for Educational Development, March.

1980 "Chan Kom, Mexico" with Michael MacGarry, pp. 34-37 in1980 Socio-Cultural Aspects of Water Supply and Excreta Disposal with Patricia Buckles. Vol. 5: Appropriate Technology in Water Supply and Sanitation. The World Bank, Washington, DC (Published in three languages and reprinted several times)

1980 "Urban and rural Nicaragua " with Rafael Rodriguez, Charles Pineo pp 28-34, ibid.

1980 "Community Participation in Implementing Water Supply and Sanitation Programs" Technical Note H.R.2.1in Water for the World

1980 "Planning Operation and Maintenance Training" (with John Austin) Technical Note No. HR 3.P in Water for the World.

1980 "Implementing Operation and Maintenance Training" (with John Austin) Technical Note No. HR 3.I.1 in Water for the World.

1980 "Evaluating Operation and Maintenance Training" (with John Austin) Technical Note No. HR 3.I.2 in Water for the World.

1980 "Trip Report to World Conference of the United Nations Decade of Women and NGO Forum", in Copenhagen for American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, July 13-20.

1980 Chaired two panels: Women and Health and Problems of Rural Women Worldwide, during the NGO Forum (Broadcast by satellite).

1980 "Changing Roles of Maya Mothers and Daughters." In Women and Technological Change ed M. Cain and R. Dauber pp 149-178. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.

1980 "Human Dimensions of Energy Needs and Resources", In Proceedings of International Workshop in Energy Survey Methodologies for Developing Countries, pp 171-176. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

1979 "A Behavioral Case Study: Chan Kom, Mexico" with Michael McGarry, Seven Case Studies of Rural and Urban Fringe Areas in Latin America. Vol. 8, pp 213-225 in Energy, Water and Telecommunications Department, Public Utility Notes as P.U. Report No. Res 23 prepared for the World Bank Research Project on" Appropriate Technology for Water Supply and Waste Disposal in Developing Countries" ed. Mary Elmendorf, Washington

1979 ''Urban and rural Nicaragua" with Rafael Rodriguez, Charles Pineo and -pp 164-212 ibid.

1979 "The Artibonite Valley and Port au Prince, Haiti "pp. 223-230 (ibid) in original draft of Eight Case Studies of Rural and Fringe areas of Latin America, as Public Utilities Report No. RES.23

1978 "Citizen Participation for Successful Village Water Supply", Civil Engineering-ASCE, August, Vol. 48, No. 8, p. 68-70, New York.

1977 "Public Participation and Acceptance", in Environmental Impacts of International Civil Engineering Projects and Practices, pp. 184-201. ed Charles G. Gunnerson and John M. Kalbermatten American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.

1977 "The Many Worlds of Women: Mexico", in Women: Roles and Status in Eight Countries and Society:: An International Comparative Perspective, pp. 129-171. pp. 111-128. ed Janet Giele and Audrey Smock, John Wiley Publishing Co., New York.

1976 "The Dilemma of Peasant Women: A View from a Village", in Women and Development, pp. 88-94, ed Irene Tinker and M. Bo Bransen, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Overseas Development Council, Washington

1975 "The Mayan Women and Change", Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge, pp. 111-129, ed. Ruby Leavitt, Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands.

1981 35mm slides taken in Sri Lanka during a six week assignment for the American Public Health Association to participate in preparing a National Water Decade Plan.

1975-1980 35mm coverage of various technologies of Water Supply and Excreta Disposal with a focus on women's roles and activities as part of my assignment on the World Bank UNDP Water Supply and Sanitation Program.

1977 35mm slides of the field work in Guatemala as a part of the National Science Foundation Earthquake Disaster Study.

1970-1976 Videos of the Ethnographic film taken of daily life and ritual in Mayan village of Chan Kom, 1970-1976, donated to the Smithsonian Institution for the National Film Archives as well as supporting research materials for the National Anthropological Archives at the National Museum of Natural History at the request of Jake Homiak, Director, with support from the Wenner Gren Foundation. Duplicates of the original film with more extensive ethnographic material are available at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.

1968 - 1972 Sixteen hundred feet of documentary film (on 4 rolls) on the ethnography of a Mayan Indian Village donated in 1974 to the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (The National Indian Institute), "for the purposes of cultural diffusion"at the request of Alfonso Villa Rojas..

Ethnographic film and tape taken in Chan Kom, Yucatan. Analyzed by Alan Lomax in 1972 for the Choreometrics Project at Columbia University, New York.

1959 World Our Hands Can Make, a 39 minute movie, based on "CARE Mexican Film Story Outline", by Mary Elmendorf .and Robert Champlain of CARE, N.Y., produced by R.K. Tompkins and Associates with support from Peter Rathvon. The director was Benito Alazraki, and the photographer was Peter Reuther. This was based on the CARE/AFSC well drilling project in Santa Maria Atenco.a village near Toluca. This film received an award at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. In 1994 the film was donated to the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution at the request of Director Jake Homiak for the new CARE exhibit, which was just being organized at the Smithsonian. Video copies are available.

2003 Accepted invitation to participate in the UNIFEM sponsored trip to Cuba with Cross-Cultural Solutions. April 18-26 (changed to October 19-26)

2003 Abstract "From Relief and Reconstruction to Self Help and Development; CARE de Mexico, 1952-60, a pilot program" for invited session Breaking New Ground by the Association of Senior Anthropologists. March 30.

2003 Attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology Building Bridges: Collaborating beyond Boundaries, March 19-23.

2003 Prepared "Revisions for a draft United Nations Resolution Proclaiming a Second International Drinking Water and Water and Sanitation Decade" for Ambassador John McDonald to be submitted to the UN General Assembly in Sept. 2003. Feb. 2003.

2002 Submitted abstract "Women and the Earth Charter" with Linda Whiteford and Jan Roberts for invited panel Global Apartheid, Environmental Degradation and Women's Action of the Commission on Women at the International Conference of Anthropology and Ethnology (ICAES) July 5-12, 2003, Florence, Italy.

2002 "Memories of Midwife Training in Mexico, 1952-2002: A Personal Perspective of an 85 Year Old Anthropologist". Prepared for the First International Conference On Professional Midwifery and Self-Regulation by CASA (Centro Adolescencia) de San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, June 19-22.

2001 "Background materials (historical, conceptual, contextual)" prepared for Pete Brosius, drafter of the "Resolution In Support of the EARTH CHARTER" which was endorsed by thirty leading anthropologists and Barbara R.Johnstone, for the Committee on Human Rights. Presented at the 100th Annual Business Meeting of American Association of Anthropologists;the Resolution was passed unanimously, November.

2001 "Women and Technological Change in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Maya" invited paper for the Mead Centennial Session: Margaret Mead's Legacy: Children, Families, and Contemporary Human Issues at the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC., November.

2001 Planning, evaluation and preparation of workshops and material for a trip to the Yucatan, November 6-16 which was sponsored by the Gulf Coast Chapter of United Nations Voluntary Fund for Women(UNIFEM). Note: This visit was in part a follow-up to Na Molay, the report of the 1997 Congress for Yucatec Mayan women, * See publication by Guadalupe Espinosa Gonzalez Na Molay: Primer Congreso de Mujeres Mayas 1997. Published by UNIFEM regional Office for Mexico, Central America, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

2001 "Understanding the Maya: Their Culture and Women's Roles" was presented in several sessions as part of orientation before the trip... These activities were based on my research and publications as well as the excellent publication Na Molay.

2001  "Happy 90th Birthday to Gilbert White Memories from 1944-1990 as a valued colleague and mentor" which was requested and included in a private publication, November. (See Endnote3)

2001 "Women, Water, and UNIFEM" Presented at the United States Committee for UNIFEM at panel, The Power of One during the 14^th Annual Meeting of the UNIFEM National Committee, Sarasota, Florida June.

2001 "Comments, Corrections and Suggestions for Additions" for the manuscript Sarasota and It's Arts Scene by Pat Ringling Buck, Marcia Corbino and Kevin Dean" for the University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, May.

2001 "Memorandum About Chan Kom: A Village that Chose Progress 1950-2000" for participants of the SfAA tour to Chan Kom, March 2001. (See article "Chan Kom: The Village that Chose Anthropologists" by Hendrick Serrie in the Newsletter of the Society for Applied Anthropology 12(4):10)

2001 "Field Notes on visit to Chan Kom" mailed to Alicia Re Cruz as part of the background for the ethnographic film.

2001 "Remembrances of Times Past: 1950 to Now" in honor of Fernando Camara Barbachano, paper invited, translated and published by Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia (INAH) Mexico.

2000 "Water is Life: A View Through the Eyes of Women", invited review paper presented at International Women's University in their seminar Water and Health, Hannover, Germany, August

2000 "The United Nations and ME: Ten Specialized Agencies Viewed Through the Eyes of a Consulting Anthropologist 1945 to 1995" at UN Day Celebration, UNA/USA Sarasota-Manatee Chapter, October 23.

2000 "Mary Elmendorf - A Frustrated Grandma Moses, Unfulfilled Artistic Dreams 1932 -1997 " Unfinished memoir as dictated to Chris Abram and Louise Hazell

2000 "The House that Grew- Memories with Stirling Dickinson" as dictated to Louise Hazell, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico.

1998 "Comments on Micro-Enterprise in Andhra Pradesh". Field Report for CARE-India, following visit to area at invitation of Country Director.

1998 "Water Harvesting in the Desert". Invited trip with Mihir Bhatt of the Foundation for Public Interest to visit water project in the desert.

NOTE: Thanks to Food for Work, the women of the village had dug an enormous pit during the dry season which they lined with plastic, sealed by "borrowing" electricity from the high wires above their village, and brought stones in hold the plastic down and lined the edges. This huge basin was built to catch the monsoon rains so that the men did not have to leave the village with their animals during the dry season and so that everyone would have drinking water from the cistern built beside the new "lake". Never have I seen more delighted/proud families.( See field notes with photographs.)

1997 "Comments" as discussant at the panel Yucatec Maya Political and Cultural Ecology: Papers in honor of Mary Elmendorf at The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November.

1997  Discussant on panel "THE FOLLOW-UP TO BEIJING: Globalization and Strategies for the 21^st Century." Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, Washington.(Sent comments. Unable to attend),

Note: Some of my contributions are included in Wriggins' Picking up the Pieces from Portugal to Palestine :Quaker Relief Work During World War 11,University Press of America, 2003.The Society of Friends were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 for their work during this period.

1996 "Review of CARE Programs 1945-1965: A Pilot Program Testing Self Help and Community Participation" with the Collection of Historical Documents for the CARE archives, including movie "World Our Hands Can Build" documenting the 1958 CARE AFSC Well-Drilling Project for the archives and prepared for CARE's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Washington, DC.

1996 "Priorities, Challenges, and Strategies: A Feminine Perspective, 1975-1995." Invited keynote presentation  at the 22^nd WEDC Conference Reaching the Unreached: Challenges for the 21^st Century, New Delhi, India, 9-13 September.

Note:  My trip was sponsored by the UNDP/ World Bank Water Supply and Sanitation Program where I had been a consultant since 1977 when I participated in the Research Project on Appropriated Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation.

1996 "Integration and Innovation: Linkages in Life", presentation of the Margaret Mead Award to Katherine Detwyler at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, March.

1996 "Water as a Human Right: Power and Gender at the Global and Local Levels", presented at invited panel during Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, Maryland.

1997  Invited participant at the U.S. Follow-Up to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women sponsored by The President's Interagency Council on Women held at the White House, Washington, May

Note: I was the only person invited from the Gulf Coast of Florida except for an African American, Dr. Gladys Branic, Superintendent of the Manatee County Department of Health. We coordinated our trips and found, while having lunch together before the meeting, that we had been born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, 30 years apart when the south was, of course, still segregated.

1996 "Global to Local: Changing Strategies and Concepts" (with Jono Miller), in proceedings of Sarasota Town Hall on Maximizing Our Quality of Life in a Sustainable Environment, Pre-Habitat II, Sarasota, Florida.

Note: Miller, co-director of the Environmental Studies Program at New College and I were on the planning committee of this all day meeting which was cosponsored by Florida House, UNA/USA, Institute for Affordable Housing , city and county government and several other NGOs.

1994 "Background materials on Mexican Women: Names, addresses, professions and projects" prepared for Women's Global Film Project: Stories of Women Around the World for Maria Nicolo, producer, Maryland Public Television. Project supported by UNIFEM at recommendation of Mildred Marcy.

1994 "An historical review of the best example of Applied Anthropology in the World; INI in Chiapas in 1950" an invited proposal for the Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to consolidate an understanding of the parts played by anthropologists in the history and development of the Maya region of Chiapas in the 1950's. Proposal was not approved.

1994 "Chiapas, the Highland Maya, 1950-1994"on Panel in Honor of Alfonso Villa Rojas at Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Cancun.

1994 "The Many Worlds of Mayan Women" presented at the University of Florida's Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Symposium, The Wisdom of the Maya, Gainesville, Florida

1994 "Environmental Strategies: A Partnership Approach for Mexico," strategy paper prepared for Center for Environment Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). Washington, D.C.

1993 "Una mirada retrospectiva: los diversos mundos de la mujer en Mexico: 1973-1993." Keynote speaker at conference at El Colegio de Mexico, September, sponsored by the Ford Foundation for presentation.

Note: Two filing boxes of background papers mostly unpublished and by Mexican authors were donated to El Colegio de Mexico for their new Women Studies Program. This material was collected during my assignment on the Ford Foundation's First Task Force on Women and used to prepare the article, "The Many Worlds of Women : Mexico." 

1993 "After Rio - What?" American Association University Women, Sarasota, Florida.

1992 Trip Reports - Participation in (1) Global Forum at UNCED in Rio de Janeiro, and (2) World Urban Forum in Curitiba, Brazil, for CEDPA, Washington, DC

1992 "The Politics of Sanitation." ECO-URB's seminar on Human Settlements, Rio de Janeiro.

1992 "Environmental Strategies for CEDPA's Mexican Partners". Mimeo, CEDPA (Center for Education Development and Population), Washington, DC

1992 Report to IDRC on "Socio-Cultural Obstacles to Acceptance of the SIRDO", mimeo.

1992 "Trip report to IDRC: A failed success, the SIRDO in Yucatan", mimeo.

1991 "Listening and Learning: Third World Women and Development." Women's Studies Forum, University of Florida, invited by "Friends of Women's Studies" Gainesville, Florida, (Founding meeting)

1990 "The International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade (1980-1990) and Women's Involvement". A review Document prepared for 'WHO, Geneva, with support from the United Nations Development Program on behalf of the Steering Committee for Cooperative Action.

1986 "Women/Irrigation/Domestic Water/Sanitation and their Interrelationship". Trip Report to WHO Jan. 15-18. (See related paper prepared for FAO.)

1985 "Water: The Basic Resource." Panel on Resources and Development at the Association of Women in Development (AWID) Conference. November.

1984 "Women as Change Agents: A Look at Action Research." IDRC Seminar, Proceedings of IDRC Seminar, Women's Issues in Water and Sanitation. Manila, September.

1984 "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access." In proceedings of the 7th WEDC Conference, Water, People and Waste in Developing Countries.

1984 "Women, Water and Waste: Keys to Development." Keynote address at the IRC/WHO Symposium, The Local Decade: Men, Women and NGO's , Amsterdam, May.

1984 "Women's Roles and Changing Societies: The Case of Water," Research Alternatives and Priorities Panel, Cornell University Conference on Women and Development: Redefining the Issues, Ithaca, New York, April.

1984 "Women, Water, and Waste: The Hidden Decision". The Interfama Conference, Singapore.

1984 "Generalizations and Linkages: Pertinent Research in the Literature on Women and Sanitation, presented at INSTRAW (Institute for Training and Research on Women) Seminar, Cairo, Egypt, March.

1984 "International Development, Women and Water." Presented at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, February.

1983 "Women's Roles in Irrigation Projects" presented at Rutgers University Workshop in Irrigation and Human Welfare. Rutgers. New Brunswick, New Jersey

1983 "Women as Managers of Human Waste: Training for New Roles and Retraining for Old Roles." Invited presentation at the Seminar on Human Waste Management for Low-Income Settlements. Volume 1, pps. 114-124, Environmental Sanitation Information Center, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, January.

1982 "The Roles of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation" (with Raymond Isely) World Health Forum, 3:2, pp. 229-230, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva.

1982 "A Behavioral Case Study: Chan Kom, Mexico". Field trip with Mike McGarry as part of the research for the World Bank's project  Appropriate Technology for Water and Sanitation, The World Bank.

1982 "Fuelwood in Thailand and Sabah." With John Landgraf on the panel on Energy Policy at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December.

1982 Seven Case Studies of Rural and Urban Fringe Areas of Latin America, editor, Vol. 8 of World Bank Research in Appropriate Technology in Water Supply and Sanitation. The World Bank, Washington, DC Note: There were originally Eight Case Studies but the one on Haiti was eliminated. Draft circulated at the World Bank, but never published for sale.

1982 "Water and Sanitation- Related Health Constraints to the Economic Development of Communities." Presented at Conference on Women, Health, and International Development, Michigan State University, October.

1982 "Where International Work Is and How To Get It." at Women in Natural Resources: An International Perspective, University of Idaho, Moscow, March.

1982 "Promotion and Support of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation". A proposal prepared for funding by the UNDP/World Bank.

Note: This was approved, as UNDP/INT1983 with additional support from NORAD. After several years with additional support from SIDA, CIDA and US AID this was renamed PROWWESS.and produced numerous booklets, strategies, etc.

1982 "Women and the Decade: Roles, Rights and Responsibilities" prepared for WHO for the April Interagency Steering Committee of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade.

1981 "Women, Water and the Decade," presented at International Affairs Session of the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Water Works Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 9.

1981 "Beyond Access to Improved Water Supply and Sanitation: Impacts on and of Women and Children", presented at Seminar held at the Pan American Heath Organization on The Impact of Interventions in Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries, by U.S. Agency for International Development, March.

1981 "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access". Proceedings of 7^th WEDC Conference: Water, People and Waste in Developing Countries, Loughborough, England.

1981 Women, Water and the Decade. WASH Technical Report 6, Water and Sanitation for Health, Arlington, VA.

1980 Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access, Maternal and Child Health in Third World Nations Symposium. Sponsored by Planned Parenthood in New York City, New York, November.

1980 "Community Woodlots: Renewable Energy" a part of a research design for a country wide project in Thailand with USAID team sponsored by MIT Consultants. ''

 1980 "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access", presented at Equity Policy Center Workshop on Women and Health at Mid DECADE Forum on Women, Copenhagen, July.

1980 Chaired two panels: "Women and Health" and "Problems of Rural Women" Worldwide, during the NGO Forum (Broadcast by satellite).

1980 "Community Participation and Women's Roles", prepared as part of a six week field trip developing a National Decade Plan for Water Supply and Sanitation as part of a ten person team sponsored by American Public Health Association with funding from USAID. Sri Lanka, March-April

1980 "Beyond Access to Improved Water and Supply and Sanitation: The Impact on and of Women and Children". Presented at US Agency for International Development Seminar, The Impact of Interventions in Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries held at the Pan American Health Organization, March

1980 "Finding Out About Energy Needs and Resources: The Human Dimensions." Presented at the National Academy of Sciences International Workshop on Energy Assessment Methodology Jekyll Island, January.

1979 "Changing Family Structures and Development: Impact on the Child." at Population Growth and Urbanization in Latin America: The Rural-Urban Interface conference of the Midwest Association for Latin America, Michigan State University, October.

1979 "Changing Patterns of Fertility: The Impacts of Contraceptive Technology on a Maya Village". Presented with Alfonso Villa Rojas of Research Institute for the Study of Man to US AID Seminar, September.

1979 "Changing Roles and the Status of Maya Mothers and Daughters in Relations to Marriage and the Family in the Yucatan." at Symposium Changing Attitudes and Behavior Patterns of Yucatan Maya Regarding Marriage and Fertility. Annual Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March.

1979 "Anita: A Maya Peasant Woman Copes", Learning About Peasant Women, special issue of Studies in Family Planning. S. Zeidenstein, ed., The Population Council: November, New York.

1979 "Forgetting or Remembering, Ignoring or Listening to the Marginal People." Issues paper prepared for Appropriate Technology International, September.

1978 "Socio-Economic Impact of Development in Chan Kom: 1971-1976: A Preliminary Study." (with Deborah Merrill-Sands) Symposium Regional Development: Yucatan. Presented at annual meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, April, mimeo.

1977-1979 "Rural Women and Change" at W 1977 Wellesley Seminar on Women, Wingspread Conferences on Women and Development and at Brookings Center for InterAmerican Relations Conference on Grassroots Approach to Rural Development.

1977 "The Changing Roles of Mayan Women in the Home and in the Market Place." First Mexican/ Central American Symposium on Research about Women, Mexico City, Mexico, November.

1977 "Village Water Supply: The Importance of Public Participation and Acceptance." Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, San Francisco, California in the workshop on Environmental Impacts of International Engineering, October.

1976 UNEP/ Asperden Institute Seminar on "Natural Resources and Social Limits", representing the World Bank Division of Environment and Health.

1976 42nd Congress of Americanists, Paris, participant only.

1976 "Social Impact Reconnaissance in Kenya: Bura Irrigation Project." The World Bank, Office of Environmental and Health Affairs, February. Rewritten and circulated as part of case study material by WID office at World Bank in 1979-80.

1975 "The Changing Roles of Mexican Women." Research report requested by and with support from the Ford Foundation, Mexico and NY

1975 "Mexican Women: Professional, Researchers, Activists and Pioneers-1950- 1975" Included names addresses and short descriptions for the Ford Foundation, Mexico and NY.

1975-1990 Keynote speaker, resource person and facilitator at various conferences, professional meetings 1980-1990 and seminars during the International DECADE of Women(1975-1985) and the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD,1980-1990).

Note: See the IDWSSD and Women's Involvement: A review paper published by WHO.

1974 "The Many Worlds of Women: Mexico" in Women and Society: An International Perspective. Research report under a grant from the Ford Foundation.

1974 "Suggestions ,Recommendations and Resources for Enhancing the Roles of W "omen in Development: Peru, Chile and Brazi lChanging Roles and Status of Women in Chile, Argentina and Peru: A Brief Overview"," Women in Development Consultant, LA-74Advisor, US/AID.

Note: These observations, which were among the first papers prepared for the " hoped-for" new office of Women in Development, were collected while I was on shore in the countries as visiting faculty on World Campus Afloat. Interviews and materials were facilitated by colleagues who had attended the SSRC Seminar earlier.

1974 "Participatory Research in a Mayan Village" invited faculty at the Social Science Research Council sponsored Seminar on Feminine Perspectives in Social Science Research in Latin America in Cuernavaca, July 18-2.

Note: At the request of the organizers, I invited Michael Potashik, SSRC representative, to spend the weekend in Tepotzlan while final reports were prepared.

1973  1993 Una Mirada retrospectiva: los diversos mundos de la mujer en Mexico: 1973-1993" (Two filing boxes of background papers mostly unpublished and by Mexican authors were donated to El Colegio de Mexico for their new Women Studies Program.)

1973 "The Mayan Woman and Change", presented for the panel on Women's Status at the IXth International Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists organized by Sol Tax, held in Chicago

1973 Invited guest at the Seminario sobre problemas de la mujer indigena (sponsored by theInter American Commission on Women (CIM) of the Organization of American States, OAS), Guatemala City.

Note : The Mexican government donated my book, La Mujer Maya y el Cambio, which the Ministry of Education had translated and published, to the participants.

1973 "Quality of Life and Mayan Women" on the panel Women and Science on the American Continent, at the CONACYT-AAAS Conference Man in the Americas in Mexico City.

1973 "The Mayan Woman and Change", Presented on the panel Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenges to the IXth Annual International Conference of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES) Conference, Chicago, September.

1972 "The Mayan Indian Women and Social Change in Mexico", Presented at the Ohio Wesleyan University Conference on Human Potential and Human Use, April.

1972 "The Mayan Women and Change". Presented at the seminar on Quality of Life at Centro Intercultural De Documentacion (CIDOC) organized by Ivan Illich with Paulo Freire, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

1971 "The "Role of Women as Agents for Peaceful Social Change". A paper presented at the 1971meeting of the Society for International Development, Ottawa.

1971 "Peaceful Social Change: Can Women Make a Difference." Society for International Development (SID) 11th World Conference, November, New Delhi. .

1968 "What is Community Development?" Presented to Ph.D. committee during planning of research program, including past experience and contract for defining development, women's roles and peaceful social change. Union Graduate School, of the University of Experimenting Colleges and Universities, Antioch College.

1968 "Independent Study in Latin America: New College Projects in Latin America." Presented as a member of the Committee on Foreign Study, Council on International Educational Exchange, N.Y. March.

1967 "Mexican Migrants in Florida: Focus on Women and Children". Presented as a member of for the First Florida Commission on the Status of Women.

1967 " Request for Dominican Representation at Costa Rican Conference: URGENT-Action required." Memorandum to Overseas Education Fund courtesy Pan American Airlines, pouch, March 11, 1967

1967 "The Women Governors of the Dominican Republic": Report to the Department of State, based on trip as visiting specialist, February 25-March 18,1967, April 1, 1967

"The Women Governors of the Dominican Republic". Prepared for the Board of the Overseas Education Fund for the League of Women Voters and the Department of State, Washington, DC. Presented to the National Steering Committee of OEF Board Meeting

"Tools and Techniques for New Solutions: A grass roots approach in." the Dominican Republic". Report to the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters.

"Summary: OEF and the Dominican Republic: Unexplained Delays" a special report to Martha Briscoe., President of the Board of Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters. June 29, 1967

Note; This explains why I ,at the end of the meeting when the President of the Board announced that OEF had decided to concentrate their work in Mexico from 1967 to 1969 after which they would consider my suggestions, I stated my position strongly that an organization did not request a consultant to obtain a request for assistance which it did not expect to honor and offered my resignation.. US AID had already agreed to initial funding.OEF relented.

Prepared a proposal for workshops in five regional areas and seminars for the women governors, and selected volunteers, which was accepted and implemented during the next three years at a cost of over one million dollars by US AID.

Note: Two evaluations of the project were published:

"The National Civic Education Project for Women Leaders in the Dominican Republic" by Una Cross in OEF NEWS October 1968

A Benchmark Study of a Title IX Activity by Thomas J. Scanlon, 1969. Submitted to US AID. Mr. Scanlon noted that "The program which Mrs. Elmendorf "recommended "(in 1967) accomplished in one month more than had been accomplished in the previous four years". See page 91.

1966 Arranged an extension of the Brown/Care/ Peace Corps program to include New College and started orientation and preparation with a few students. Also later helped select two Dominicans to come as exchange students to New College.

Note: One of these students, Daisy Mejia, later attended the School of Social Work at the University of St. Louis and with a Ford Foundation Grant, completed her PhD in psychology at Columbia. University. She is now teaching at USF at Fort Myers. ( See Archives of New College and newspaper clippings}

1965 "Independent Study Projects for New College Students in the Dominican Republic", the first off-campus Independent Study Projects (ISPs)

Note: This project was designed at the request of Dallas Dort, President of the New College Board of Trustees and founding member of the Sister Cities program. When my husband accepted his appointment as President of New College, Dort asked if I would be willing to building on the existing program started at Brown University for New College students. I accepted with pleasure and with the help of Don Pearson, Brown graduate, who was studying in Guatemala as recipient of the first Arnold Fellowship, given by Tom Watson of IBM, not only designed off campus study for New College students in the Dominican Republic, but also later in Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Colombia.(Note See clippings and material in the New College Archives at the Jane Cook Library).

1964 "Summer Work Study Projects Proposal for Brown University Students in Dominican Republic". Informal contract/ agreement worked out with Andres S. Hernandez (first Peace Corps director in Dominican Republic and in Latin America and first Mexican American appointed by Peace Corps) to place Brown students as aides/interns to Peace Corps volunteers. First for Peace Corps, first for Brown, first for CARE.

Organized a Peace Corp - CARE - Brown University bi-national committee to oversee the Brown University summer project which functioned well for several years, with support from the Inter Fraternity Council.

1964 "Off campus projects in Dominican Republic: Work Study as Experiential Learning", Presented at Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) annual meeting. (First overseas Brown program, initiated at the request of students and partially supported by IFC. According to Donald Pearson, President. This was the first time a woman was invited to speak to the IFC.)

1960 "NGOs and the United Nations" at United Nations Seminar on Community Participation and field trips in Latin America, Invited participant, Mexico.

1960 "CARE de Mexico Summary Report 1952-1960", presented at the CARE Board meeting in New York, along with Mary Elmendorf's resignation.

1960 "Notes for Case Study of a Mexican Village." Background Paper for John F. Kennedy's proposal for establishing the Peace Corps. This was supplemented by film World Our Hands Can Build (1959).

1959 "People to People, Women to Women: CARE and NGOs." Annual Meeting of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, Miami.

1959 "World Our Hands Can Build," Technical Notes for Files of documentary film of 1958 CARE/ AFSC well-drilling project. Included in the Deed of Gift to the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, 1994.

1957 "Summary of CARE Activities in Mexico: 1952-57." Prepared for meeting of CARE Board of Trustees. Presented in New York headquarters.

1953 "CARE, Que es Care?" (What is Care?). Mimeograph, CARE.

1953 "CARE de Mexico Second Annual Report", presented at the International CARE Conference in Panama City.

1952 "CARE de Mexico First Annual Report", prepared for the International CARE Conference on the Isle of Rhodes.

Note: This report, documenting one of CARE's two pilot projects in self-help and community development, was presented by Richard Reuter, Director of CARE, after my invitation to attend was withdrawn.

1952 "School Feeding Programs for Haiti." Project proposal from CARE

Note. This request was made by the Haitian Cultural Attache, Remy Bastien, in Mexico after Ministry of Health announced in EXCELSIOR, the morning paper, that Mexico had rejected CARE's offer for school feeding programs in the four poorest states of Mexico. He apologized for doing this, but told me that he had been invited to run for President so couldn't afford to accept food from the USA. Besides UNICEF, after hearing about the CARE proposal, had offered powdered milk. "You understand we can accept that since we are part of the UN", he explained. And I did!

Immediately I got in touch with CARE NY with the two bits of news. CARE agreed to earmark the milk they were holding ready for Mexico for Haiti and asked me to go to Haiti to discuss the program. I agreed to do, if accompanied by my husband, who was fluent in French. Together we negotiated a program with Papa Ddoc Francois DuvalierMaguar after visiting suggested areas distributing CARE self-help tools, etc. and received approval from CARE, New York.

1948 "Development of Leadership Patterns Among Students in University Trailer Park: 1946-47." MA thesis, incomplete, in anthropology supervised by John Gillin at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1945 "Assistance to Spanish Refugees." Proposal requested by Sir Herbert Emerson, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, from the American Friends Service Committee to help this unserved population immediately following VE Day.

1938 "My new friend: Life in Pottsville, Arkansas", a short transcript of conversations with the blacksmith's wife, including a lesson in cheese-making.

Note: After our wedding in St. Paul, North Carolina on December the 27^th we had a brief honeymoon in Pinehurst, before taking the train coach to Arkansas where John was principal of a rural school in Pottsville. I had given up my job as social worker in the Asheboro Dept of Public Welfare so had nearly five months to learn how to keep house in our two bedroom and a hall "upstairs apartment." We shared the bathroom and an ice box on the ground floor with Miss Elsie Oates, our landlady to whom we paid $2.50 a month, one bed and dresser included, but not even a stove or sink in the "kitchen". We installed a faucet in a 50 gallon wooden keg, which we had to keep filled by bringing in pails of water from the pump downstairs. I will admit I threw some dishwater out the upstairs window into the shrubbery when possible!

1937 "Achievement and Motivation as Observed Among Rats in Controlled Maze Feeding Experiment." Senior thesis in psychology supervised by Richard Dashiel (with honors Sigma Xi) UNC Chapel Hill.

1933 "Why We Need More Cows in Robeson County." A winning essay submitted, as a member of the 4-H Club, to the Lumberton Kiwanis Club "in an effort to stimulate interest in DAIRYING in Robeson County".

Note: The award, a calf, "could not be mortgaged or in any way disposed of and at the end of the two and one-half year period, the holder of the calf shall give to the Lumberton Kiwanis Club either the amount paid by them for the calf or another heifer calf, born of this calf". This small program later became known as the Heifer Program, which was expanded to Europe during World War II, and is still in operation today as Heifer International.

1932 "Cotton Production in North Carolina: How to Make it Profitable." Presented in a debate emphasizing the need for a cotton co-operative to eliminate the middle man seen as the "farmer's greatest enemy". Awarded first prize: a five dollar gold piece.

1931 Scrap Book on political and international affairs which included my comments and cartoons. At that time I had decided to become a political cartoonist! Project supervised by Civics teacher.

1975-1997 The World Bank - Washington, DC

Since August of 1975 I have served as Consulting Anthropologist on a variety of projects as follows:

Investigated the socio-cultural dimensions of introducing appropriate technologies for sanitation improvement in developing countries, using case study method.

Suggested researchers, designed and supervised field work in eight Latin American countries.

Edited the eight case studies, which were translated into Spanish and circulated at the World Bank as Volume 8 of the World Bank Research on Appropriate Technology in Water Supply and Sanitation as Seven Case Studies of Rural and Fringe Areas of Latin America (Haiti was omitted). Vol 8 was translated but never released for publication.

Prepared executive summary and wrote analysis assisted by P. Buckles which was published by the World Bank as Socio-Cultural Aspects of Excreta Dispose, as Volume 5 in Appropriate Technology in Water Supply and Sanitation Series. In three languages, 1980,1982.

Prepared background paper for "Water Week" December, 1990

Presented summary of research at AWID Conference. 1990

Presented paper on "Women as Managers of Human Waste: Training for

New Roles and Retraining for Old" at the International Seminar of Human Waste Management Bangkok, January, 1983,

Also chaired workshop on Community Participation and Training as a part of the World Bank/ UNDP low-cost Sanitation Project.

Reviewed World Bank Handbook on Project Preparation for Water Supply and Sanitation and recommended specific ways to incorporate promotion and support of women as part of community participation. Indicated places in Handbook and accompanying Information and Training Modules to incorporate references to women's roles within broad sauce-cultural framework.

Prepared socio-cultural section of pilot for the Latin American Sector, Women/Water/Sanitation project for Quarter, Mexico, 1989.

Prepared draft paper, "Forests, Fuel, Food and Females," a brief overview of women in World Bank forestry projects, 1980.

Examined socio-cultural impact of development projects in Office of Environment and Health

Participated as member of an appraisal mission on the Bura Irrigation Scheme in Kenya (1975).

Chief of Appraisal Mission to evaluate a Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Nicaragua (1978)

Participated as member of a preparatory mission on first Maternal Child Health and Family Planning in Mexico (1979)

Resource person for Women in Development, 1975-1978, while attached to the Division of Environmental Health as part of Central Projects Staff.

Reviewed and contributed to Annual Abstract Journals, Women, Water, and Sanitation, published by IRC (Int'l Research Center), 1991 and 1995.

1977-1979 Fellow Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM), New York and Yucatan

Designed in collaboration with Mexican anthropologist, Alfonso Villa Rojas, for Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technologia (CONACYT) and Mexican Ministry of Health, a long-term research project on changing fertility patterns of Mayan women in Yucatan in relation to demographic change. Provided basic information for implementing improved module for maternal child health and family planning service, 1976-1978.

Participated in first Mayan Midwife training with the National Indian Institute in Yucatan at the request of Dr. Gilberto Balam, Director of INI's regional center in Valladolid At my request I was joined by my colleague Brigette Jordan, who had just completed her research for Birth in Four Cultures, including a case study of a Mayan midwife.

1982 - 1997 United Nations Development Program, Division of Global and Interregional Projects, New York. (Later this project became a part of the UNDP/ World Bank Water Supply and Sanitation Programme.)

Prepared original project document for World Bank to support UNDP/ INT.83-003, now called PROWWESS, and helped obtain funding from NORAD, CIDA, and later USAID.

Reviewed and collected over 150 existing research and technical reports on community participation, health education and the roles of women in water supply and sanitation in cooperation with various UN agencies, as well as other governmental and non-governmental organization and research institutions as part of preparatory phase of project "Promotion and Support for Women's Participation in the International Drinking Supply and Sanitation Decade," now called PROWWESS.

Defined priority areas of research and technical report preparation indicating importance of linkages with other components of project and other women in development activities for UNDP/PROWWESS project.

Made exploratory fact-finding field trips to Thailand (Jan. 1983), Sri Lanka (Mar. 1983) and Honduras (Oct 1983) as part of the preparation for an interregional project to promote and support women's participation in drinking water supply and sanitation schemes in selected countries, 1982.

Prepared a list of individuals and institutions as potential resources for collaboration with the project.

Prepared and presented papers concerning the PROWWESS project at various international workshops and seminars including INSTRAW, 1983; WEDU, Singapore, 1984; AWID, Washington, 1985, FSRYE, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1986, , ASCI (American Society of Civil Engineers) University of Colorado, Denver, 1989, UNA/USA, Florida Division Annual Meeting, 1981.

Consultant for World Bank/ UNDP PROWWESS pilot project with UNICEF in Mexico, 1991

Note: Reviewed impact of PROWWESS consultants who were using the new techniques/strategies on UNICEF field programs in State of Mexico, Summer. See draft trip report and photos.

Prepared draft history of UNDP/ INT.82-003 or PROWWESS for World Bank 1992.

Consultant to PROWESS (World Bank/UNDP) 1982-1996

Editorial Reviewer and Contributor to the Abstract Journal Women, Water and Sanitation, published annually by the International Reference Center, The Hague 1985 - 1995.

1982-1991 World Health Organization (WHO) Geneva

Prepared issues paper, "Women and the Decade: Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities" for the Steering Committee of International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, Feb 1982.

Prepared paper, "Women the Underused Resource" for Regional Symposium on Human Resources for IDWSSD, Panama, July 1982, and helped organize workshops with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 1982.

Participated as member of The Technical Work Group on the Participation of Organizations Related to Women In Primary Health Care Activities and helped prepare Report by same name. At Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), May 26-28 ,1983, Washington ( See Volume 11and supporting documents in UFArchives).

Discussed draft paper prepared for FAO (see above) and revised. Also reviewed draft for document, Women, Water, and Sanitation,many sections of which I had written, 1984-86.

Visited NEPAL, at the request of SEARO (South East Asia Regional Office of WHO) after a week in Delhi reading the files and working with staff, to meet with the researchers preparing case studies on four projects. Reviewed the papers in the field, made suggestions for revisions, but was unable, because of conflicting assignment, to attend final workshop. Fall1987.

1980-1985 Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH), US Agency for International Development Washington, D.C. Arlington, Virginia

Prepared various papers on issues related to community participation and women's roles in designing implementing, using and maintaining improved water and sanitation. (See publications)

Participated in numerous conferences and workshops.

Donated my collection of materials on community participation to the new WASH Library.

Assisted in preparing bibliography. (WASH Technical Report #18) and suggested incorporation of this bibliography with the annotated bibliography forthcoming from IRC ( International Reference Center)

Assisted Peace Corps training staff on Navajo Reservation preparing volunteers for overseas assignments in Water Supply and Sanitation.

Participated in team preparation of feasibility studies for USAID Water and Sanitation Projects in the Philippines,1985 and Honduras, 1980.

1980-1982 Institute for Rural Water, Washington

Prepared background paper on community participation- used in reference manual (see publications)

Reviewed fact sheets for Knowledge Synthesis Project, adding gender issues where missing and incorporating importance of community participation.

Served on editorial board of the publication, Safe Water and Sanitation for Health.

1993 UNPFA Seminar "Women, Population and Environment", Mexico City. Prepared background papers for CEDPA and assisted population and environmental programs for presentation at the seminar.

1992- 1995 Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), Washington.

Worked with CEDPA/ UNPFA delegates at the 1992 UN conference on the Environment (UNCED) and Earth Summit

Assisted in preparation of relevant training materials, shared collection of journals and designs for stoves, latrines, etc as well as trees suitable for renewable energy etc. to help incorporate environmental activities in family planning programs.

Prepared list of environmental agencies, especially NGOs, in Mexico.

Left collection for library of CASA (Centro para Adolescentes.) San Miguel de Allende after regional workshop there.

Visited and evaluated CEDPA assisted projects in five states in Mexico and prepared "Environmental Strategies for CEDPA", work in Mexico.

Attended InterACTION Pathfinder Workshop, "Finding Linkages between Environmental and Population Programs," Oaxaca, Mexico, September.

1993 Participated in InterACTION Forum, May 1993, Washington.

Completed draft as working paper for CEDPA "Women, Environment and Population: Discovering Linkages for Sustainable Development: Mexican Strategies".1993. Mexico

Participated in UNPFA Seminar "Women, Population and Environment", Mexico City. Prepared background papers for CEDPA and assisted population and environmental programs for presentation at the seminar.1993.

Designed four scenarios in various ecological regions for use at UNPFA seminar "Gender Issues in Population and Environment" which was used as background paper for UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (1994).

1991 Facilitator, Global Assembly of Women and the Environment, co-sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Programme and WorldWIDE, Miami. 1991

1991 Facilitator, World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet, Miami 8-12 November. 1991

Note: Out of this grew WEDO( Women, Environment and Development)which the late Bella Abzug directed so well.

1985 United Nations Conference on Women, Nairobi. Prepared papers for presentation by staff of UNICEF and PROWWESS at various panels.(Unable to attend).

1984 International Environmental Services (IES) Texas. Director and Vice President for Social Science contract procurement.

1980 Founder and Director of Appropriate Designs for Basic Needs (ADBN). Sarasota and Washington. Accepted various assignments in Asia and Latin America as independent consultant.

1980 Consultant for Program for the Introduction and Adaptation of Contraceptive Technology (PIACT) of Mexico on designing and pre testing information booklets on contraceptives for non-literate, Maya. Worked closely with Mayan midwives as well as with healthcare workers and peasant women particularly in Chan Kom, Yucatan.( See partial report)

1980 Attended the United Nations Mid-Decade on Conference on Women, in Copenhagen for the American Public Health Association (APHA).

Presented papers on two panel s on Health Needs of World's Poor Women for Equity Policy Center (EPOC)on at the invitation of Irene Tinker.

Chaired two discussions on Women, Water, Health and Development, which were broadcast via satellite through the efforts of Lynn Gallagher, International Communications Network, Kalorama Place, Washington

1977-1979 Project Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation-sponsored Guatemala Earthquake Recovery Study carried out by J. Glittenberg.

Attended several NSF committee meetings and a made field trip to Guatemala with Paul Doughty to the project area.

1977 Member, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Water Conference, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Appointed by President Carter

Note: I was one of two women delegates on the delegation.Patricia Rosenberg, of Resouces for the Future, and I decided to coordinate our itinerary-including a stop in Iguazu Falls.

1975 Invited participant, UNDP/UNITAR/AAAS Seminar preparatory to the first United Nations International Conference on Women, Mexico.

Note: One of the most interesting things with me was sharing a room with Ela Bhatt, who was presenting a paper on getting bank accounts approved for street sweepers in India- the seeds of Women's World Banking. I was, of course, talking about rural women, Mayan women. Neither of us could understand how the other could work with the groups we were working with, but we became friends. Later, ironically my son, while with USAID in India worked closely with Ela Bhatt's organization , SEWA, and I had several wonderful trips and meetings with her son , Mihir Bhatt, who was extremely interested in water and sanitation and grass roots participation.in rural areas. ( See Water Harvesting)

Panelist at The Tribune during the conference and facilitator in organizing support for founding of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Women, now UNIFEM.

Note: While Peg Snyder, who became founding President of UNIFEM was getting support from the African delegates, I was working closely with the Latin Americans, many of whom I had worked with over the years.

1972-1990 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Participated as official member of Research Advisory Committee (RAC), 1979-1982, in quarterly meetings of committee to evaluate research proposals and recommended addition and / or different techniques and methodologies.

Prepared several background papers on Women and Development in Peru, Chile, and Argentina for new office of WID, 1972-73.

Presented papers on Women, Water, and Sanitation at various conferences and workshops, 1980-85, including professional meetings of engineers, ASCE, AWWA, etc. See publications and conference presentations, many for WASH (Water and Sanitation for Health,a US AID supported organization).

Commented on various proposals, especially in field, both final and mid-term as team leader and/or consulting anthropologist for outside agencies-- evaluating projects in the water, sanitation and health sector.

1960 - 1982 Consultant for the Peace Corps, and the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters

1963-1967 Consultant for the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, Washington, D.C.

1987 Assistant to John Landgraf while living at the Sabah Museum in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (formerly British North Borneo). See article in WAPA Newsletter "And A Rural Eden", Vol. 11 No.1, September.1988

1986- 198792 International Science and Technology Institute (ISTI) Washington and Guatemala.

Led six week, five person team in mid-term evaluation of USAID rural water/ sanitation projects in Guatemala, CARE and Agua del Pueblo, in over 150 rural communities. (July- September 1986)

Helped prepare field trip for Indonesian Health Officials to USA, with husband, John Landgraf, October 1987

1985- 1995 International Development Research Centre, (IDRC) Ottawa.

Served as resource person and speaker at IDRC seminar on "Women's issues in Water and Sanitation", Manila, 1984

Prepared plans for field research in Sri Lanka 1987 (Canceled because of violence when my counterpart was murdered).

Participated in Seminars on Participation of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation, Ottawa, 1986 and 1988.

Evaluated socio-cultural aspects of SIRDO, an Integrated System for Recycling Organic Wastes, in Valley of Mexico and Yucatan, 1991

1984-1986 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, Rome.

Prepared a draft background paper and bibliography on "Women/ Irrigation/ Drinking Water/ Sanitation and their Interrelationships" based on a review of the literature and interviews at World Bank, UNDP, USAID, WHO, and selected individuals, 1984

Discussed paper and feelings with staff in Rome and worked closely with Division of Community Forestry on gender issues, 1986.

Participated in workshops/ discussion groups on Irrigation and Drinking Water, 1983, and Women, Technology and Development, New York, 1986

1981-1982 META Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thailand and Malaysia

Participated as part of a META Systems (USAID) project on Rural Renewable Energy to help design a survey for the National Energy Administration of Thailand.

Prepared, with John Landgraf, a background paper on "Community Woodlots" in cooperation with the Royal Forestry Department

Collaborated with John Landgraf on a field survey of shifting cultivator and forest projects related to renewable energy in Sabah, Malaysia, Oct.-Nov., 1981

1980 American Public Health Association (APHA), Washington, Sri Lanka and at the UN Mid-Decade Conference on Women, Copenhagen

Participated in eight-week assignment in Sri Lanka as a member of an eight-person USAID team which prepared a National Decade Plan for Water and Sanitation . (See slides in Audio-Visual section)

Note: As part of my preparation met with Howard Wriggins who had done research and written about Sri Lanka following our AFSC service in Europe in 45-46,as well as Caroline Ware, who had led a UNDP mission to Sri Lanka many years earlier . Much to my delight I found her report in the UN office there and found it most helpful in analyzing the early efforts in community involvement in installing water pumps, etc.

Prepared sections on community participation, social equity, cultural aspects, women's roles and designed support programs in research, training and evaluation with environmental engineer, John Austin.

Presented discussion paper, "Women, Water and Waste: Beyond Access," in Equity Policy (EPOC) workshop and panels on Women and Health in the Forum of the Mid-Decade Conference of women, Copenhagen, Denmark, July, 1980.

Chaired two thirty minute satellite TV presentation of "Rural Women and Health."

1973-1994 The Ford Foundation, International Division, Fellow, New York and Mexico.

1952 - 1960 Chief of the CARE Mission, Mexico

Specific duties over eight year period included:

Negotiating and administering CARE's first self help community development program in Lain American; working with Ministries of Education, Agriculture, Health, and the National Indian Institute; planning pilot activities related to: village well-drilling, rural mobile health care, nutrition, basic education, and intermediate technologies; helping to prepare a case study of the CARE/AFSC project which was used as a model for designing a plan for Peace Corp; assisting in writing and directing a film, "World Our Hands Can Build" which illustrated community participation in a village well-drilling project. This film, demonstrating collaboration between two private agencies (CARE and AFSC), governmental- local, state, and national - and international agencies (UNDP, WHO, and UNESCO) organizations in response to locally defined needs was well received at the international film festival.

1945- 1946 Director of Refugee Section of Secours Quaker (American Friends Service Committee), Paris.

1943- 1945 Social Worker for National Travelers Aid Association (USO Member Agency).,

Social Worker Supervising Volunteers, Obtaining Temporary Housing, and Interviewing Persons Requesting Help First in Youngstown, Ohio and Sharon, Pennsylvania: near Camp Shenango, the so called "concentration camp" of the US Army where homosexuals, pacifists, sword swallowers and other "untrustworthy" soldiers were assigned. My specific assignments included supervising volunteers, obtaining temporary housing, and interviewing persons requesting help. Arranged with the Chief of Police to have young women (camp followers) whom he felt were not professional prostitutes to contact me so that I could interview them and help them arrange housing and transportation to keep them from being arrested. Most of these young women had come to say goodbye to their boyfriends who were being shipped overseas from this port of embarkation, but arrived too late. They were left without any funds and needed help. American Red Cross was unable to offer assistance to anyone not legally married to a serviceman. Travelers Aid started getting referrals from the police and direct requests from young women. 1943-44

Petersburg, Virginia: Worked along with the volunteers in the hospitality center between the segregated waiting rooms at the railroad station where US soldiers were given coffee and donuts, as they left for their port of embarkation to Europe. Without enough volunteers, I suggested that for the first time African American mothers should be invited to join the other volunteer mothers in the hospitality center. This was the first time black (colored) and white mothers served refreshments together to the departing soldiers. (No publicity was given to this knowing it might end it, but the mothers were delighted to be working together.)1945

Gulfport, Mississippi: Accepted short term appointment as Director, while Travelers Aid located a permanent director.. Reorganized the office, helped staff and volunteers remove notations (such as "No Jews", "No Blacks", "No Yankees", "No Italians") from housing forms after talking with homeowners.1945

1943 Social Worker at New England Home of Little Wanderers, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Assisted with adoption, working closely with Children's Hospital. All files were coded for religious affiliation as well as race.1937 Social Worker in Southport, North Carolina in the Brunswick County Department of Public Welfare from June through August when she became acting superintendent of public welfare. She had been the only social worker in Brunswick County, the largest and poorest county in the North Carolina. When the superintendent accepted another assignment she was asked to replace him temporarily supervising all of the local and state wide programs including Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), Welfare, including distribution of food and clothing, parole, etc. September 1 transferred to Asheboro as social worker in the County Department of Welfare where she remained until December when she resigned.

1940 Co-Director with John Elmendorf of the Putney School's first work-study project in Latin America located in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

This was to replace Putney's European projects which were no longer possible because of WWII. June- August.

1940 Director of second Putney School work- study project in Latin America.

Note: When the draft Board refused to allow John Elmendorf to leave the USA, I reluctantly agreed to take over all responsibility for planning, travel and study arrangements, but insisted that there be an older woman staff member from Putney in charge of housing and "evening activities" for the twelve students- 9 girls and three boys. This was approved. While I was in Mexico John worked as a Quaker volunteer at the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, N.Y. helping German refugees adapt to the US.

1938-1940 Social Worker in New Haven, Connecticut for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) reviewing cases among the African American and Italian districts of the Capitol. Later assigned to a state wide position reviewing the WPA projects on Dutch Elm Disease and helping reorganize local programs in Waterbury.

1937 Social Worker in Southport, North Carolina in the Department of Public Welfare in Brunswick County Department. June- August

Note: This was the largest and poorest county in North Carolina. From June through August I was the only social worker in Brunswick County, the size of Rhode Island! Several friends I made in the rural areas invited me to spend occasional overnights in their homes to keep me from having to drive back to Southport. There was one bed and breakfast at Holden's Beach where I spent several weekends but most of work was around Southport.

Acting Superintendent, Brunswick County Department of Public Welfare August-November.

Note: When the superintendent accepted another assignment I was asked to replace him temporarily supervising all of the local and state wide programs including Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), Welfare, including distribution of food and clothing, Parole, etc .I was fired for removing the sister of a County Commissioner from the clothing list., which I had done after she explained she only used the clothing to cut up for making quilts and agreed that they should go to the needy!

1937 Social Worker in Asheboro, N.C., temporary assignment in the County Department of Welfare where I remained until December when I resigned to get married! November

1991 - Present

Affiliate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

1982 Mentor, New College of Florida, Sarasota

1978 Adjunct Professor, The Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1975 - 1996

Participated in University workshops and seminars, including presentations at Cornell, Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Rutgers, New College, Consortium of Black Colleges in Atlanta, the Universities of Idaho, Florida, Ottawa, East-West Center, Hawaii, Atlanta, George Washington University, Manatee Community College, and Schulab Institute, New Delhi.

1974 - 1975

Visiting Professor of Anthropology for World Campus Afloat, Chapman College (Now University of Pittsburgh)

Taught seminars on women in cross cultural perspective and applied anthropology with special reference to peasant societies and development. Arranged field/ study trips in 44 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean on two around the world voyages and an interterm in the Caribbean.

Worked with adult students studying for the BA and MA degrees in a non-resident and non -traditional educational program. Gave brief seminars during residency periods and in the field.

1973  Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass.

Taught seminar on "Peasants and Change." Course was designed for undergraduates and included both beginning and upper division students.

Note: (Commuted from Sarasota to Amherst weekly for most of the term. Continued contact with several students including Deborah Merrill, who wrote her senior thesis at Hampshire on syncrisity between Catholicism and Mayan beliefs. Later, at my invitation, Deborah first became my research assistant on a World Bank study "Impact of Development Projects on a Mayan Village". Then she joined our RISM- USAID research team "Investigating Fertility Determinants Among the Maya". One of her major contributions was the documentation of increasing importance of bee keeping as a supplement to declining income from subsistence agriculture, a study which led to her 1984 Ph.D. thesis in anthropology/ agriculture at Cornell University. (In 1986, she and I were both working in Rome at FAO headquarters with Deborah working on an annotated bibliography and I preparing a paper on the lack of linkages between irrigation and domestic drinking water.)

 

1965-1972 Coordinator of Off Campus Studies at New College. Sarasota Fl.

Redesigned the Brown program for New College as independent study/. Projects for New College students in the Dominican Republic at the request of Dallas Dort, Chair of the New College Board of Trustees and founding member of Sister Cities Association. Met with Sister City Association, which had recently named Santa Domingo as Sarasota's first Sister City, to begin exchanges of students and assist with other projects.

Helped select two Dominicans as New College students as part of our participation in the Sister Cities Association. One of these, Daisy Mejia, after graduation won a Ford Fellowship and is now teaching at the University of South Florida in Ft. Myers.)

Worked with faculty and students in getting support and academic credit for experiential learning, as a volunteer with occasional assistance from Madeline Bonin, executive secretary to President John Elmendorf.

Arranged overseas internships for students in CARE and Peace Corps - a pilot project for both agencies, which I had started at Brown. with various international agencies, such as CARE and Peace Corps, and universities.

Extended New College internships/ISPs to Guatemala, where Don Pearson, Brown 65, helped coordinate activities for the New College students. Pearson, with the first Arnold Fellowship provided by Tom Watson of IBM, who readmitted him to Brown after he flunked out, offered to continue working with New College students on ISPs in Guatemala while he did his research there. Except for one trip I made during the term, the students were working independently with CARE and Peace Corps still under Andres Hernandez and Faculty at the University of Santiago as well as USAID.staff.

Joined the efforts of the Florida/ Columbia alliance by assigning-some students there, such as one for Glenda Cimino in an urban area of Bogotá with University of Florida faculty, which was published as written by her as a chapter in a book.

A new College student, Jet Lowe ,did a project in Haiti, where I had previously worked, as had a Brown student ,Dianna Newton.

Obtained grant from a local retired UN employee exclusively for independent studies overseas, and was assigned. James Feeney, graduate student from Goddard who had accompanied his advisor Prof. Himmelhock on his sabbatical here., Feeney organized the files, and supervised an evaluation of "The first three years of off campus ISPs 1965-1968", which was used as part of the accreditation process.

Accepted offer from Florida Presbyterian [now Eckerd College] to collaborate with them in filling slots for summer ISPs in China and India, available through a national grant.

Note: Requested transfer in 1969 of program to New College faculty committee, then chaired by Lyndon Clough with Feeney as staff, so that I could pursue my graduate studies. Faculty delighted to have a funded on-going program in their hands. Now that New College had received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities, matching grants etc could be obtained. (See reports to Board of Trustees, faculty committee, etc. including evaluation of program which was used as part of the accreditation procedure.)

Continued informal contact, 1969-1972, with the off-campus studies program, along with my other duties/ activities as wife of New College President, John Elmendorf. Arranged several assignments in Yucatan where I was doing graduate research among the Maya and set up some research projects in central Mexico with Fernando Camara de Barbachano s, supervised by Fernando Barbachano C.of UNAM..uch as ieBill Herman's" Participation in a Peregrination to the Shrine of Guadalupe". Also one for Glenda Cimino with University of Florida in an urban area of near Cali , Colombia, which was published as written by her as a chapter in a book.</