ELECTED TRUSTEE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 19

ELECTED TRUSTEE.

WOHAN GETS BIG POST. SAN FRANCISCO, January 4. The first woman to be elected trustee of a 1000-mHlioh dollar utility company—a former Texas girl who began her businee* life as a secretary—summed up her working philosophy in New York: "Any job well done is a valuable experience and means just so much sinew and nerve force. There's no need to bemoan lack of opportunity, because every experience can be turned to good stead." The first woman to hold a vote oiy the board of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York is Mrs. Kenneth B. Norton, grey eyed, fresh faced, with brown hair showing only a few strands of grey. She ia the wife of an architect, lives in a white Georgian brick house in Bronxville, New York State, and is an excellent cook. For the last 18 months she served on the board of the Westchester Lighting Company, as -a non-salaried contact between the company and the housekeeper-consumers. In her new post she will draw no pay except her director's fees. "If I have nothing at stake financially," she said, "I have nothing to hedge in my viewpoint. I can be utterly impartial and independent."