"WOMAN OF THE YEAR”
AWARD TO AMERICAN GRANDMOTHER America’s woman of the year is a mother of 12 children and the grandmother of 18. ShQ is Dr. Lilian Holler Gilbreth, aged 70, an active management engineer. She is the holder of the 1948 title, awarded by the American Women’s Association in a national polling of 50 women’s groups, and based on “eminent achievement.” Dr. Gilbreth’s selection was based largely on her work in “discovering, recognising and formulating the laws of human motion which in industry are accepted to-day as fundamental.” Dr. Gilbreth has specialised in the relationship between workers and their machines, and in applying time and energy-saving techniques to work of all types. She has improved the lot of many American housewives by introducing work-simplification methods into the home, and particularly the kitchen. Dr. Gilbreth is president of Gilbreth Incorporated, consulting management engineers, a concern which she and her husband, the late Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, established many years ago. Together, they are credited with pioneering in the field of scientific management and with launching the science of “motion study.” The firm served as efficiency experts for many major industrial plants in the United States. Britain and Germany from 1910 to 1924. While she was having and caring for her large family, as well as helping her husband, Mrs Gilbreth earned her doctor’s degree at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1915. After her husband’s death she was granted honorary degrees by eight universities. In 1935 she became professor of management at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and from 1941 to 1943 was chairman of the department of personnel relations at Newark College of Engineering in New Jersey. During World War II she was a consultant for the United States Office of War Information, worked with the United States War Manpower Commission, and was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents for four years. Dr. Gilbreth still lives an active life. Several times a year she lectures at Purdue University, where she still is professor emeritus of industrial engineering and does advisory work. She attends a class in work-simpli-fication at Columbia University, New York City. Dr. Gilbreth is a member of the American Association of University Women, the American Management Association, the Institute of Management, the Society for the Advancement of Management, the American Psychological Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of Industrial Engineers. She has written eight books, three of them with co-authors and numerous papers on education, management, psychology and research.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25811, 24 May 1949, Page 2
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