FIRST TRIP ABROAD

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32194, 13 January 1970, Page 2

FIRST TRIP ABROAD

Mrs Judy Agnew, who is at present accompanying her husband, Mr Spiro T. Agnew, VicePresident of the United States, on a visit to Asia and the Pacific, has never travelled outside her own country before.

The couple will visit New Zealand briefly this week. Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs Agnew is 59 years old, five foot four, and the mother of four children.

The granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she is of French and German extraction. Her father, the late Dr W. Lee Judefind, was a chem-

ist and vice-president of the Davison Chemical Company in Baltimore, where her mother still lives.

Mrs Agnew attended public schools in Baltimore, where she was born, and graduated from high school in 1940. She met her future husband while working at the Maryland Cas-

ualty Company. He was also working there and was attending night classes in law at the University of Baltimore.

World events postponed their wedding plans, but they were eventually married in May, 1942, three days after the future Vice-President graduated from an army officer training school. The couple's first child, Pamela, who is now married and a social worker, was born in July, 1953. Eight months later, Mr Agnew was sent overseas as a company commander in the 10th Armoured Division, serving for two years in Europe. Their son, Rand, was born in September, 1946. He has served in Vietnam and is now a real estate salesman in Baltimore, married, with a small daughter.

The Vice-President and his wife also have two younger daughters, Susan, who is 22 and training to be a co-ordin-ator of volunteers for the

Maryland State mental hospitals, and Kimberley, who is 15 and still at school. The Agnews live in a nineroom apartment in the congressional wing of the Sheraton Park Hotel apartments in Washington, D.C. As wife of the Vice-Presi-dent, Mrs Agnew is president of the Senate Wives' Red Cross unit, which meets weekly. She is also honorary chairman and patron of a number of charitable and civic organisations. Foreign dignitaries and wives of visitors to the United States hav. to be entertained at luncheons and teas, and the Agnews often assist President and Mrs Nixon at White House social functions. Mrs Agnew enjoys walking and often accompanies her husband, an avid golfer, round the golf course. She likes reading for relaxation but her favourite pastime—when her schedul permits—is looking after her granddaughter.