THE FEMININE

VIEWPOINT

In the spring of 1953 about a half year after ONE's founding a tiny brown-haired girl shyly approached the staff member who was speaking to a group of sixty or so people about ONE and said she would be glad to help in some way. Thus Ann Carll Reid and ONE first met each other.

There were tedious boxes of envelopes to be addressed, order blanks to be folded, stuffing, stamping, sealing and mailing to be done. There were messy handwritten manuscripts to be deciphered and typed. There were three-line letters to be written. The Corporation's files did not exist, except as shapeless bundles of unsorted items: correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, letters from would-be authors, letters from those in jail asking ONE to "take my case."

These were things she worked at. In June of that year the minutes record her appointment to the Circulation Department. That meant going to the postbox each day for the mail, sorting it, answering routine letters. and then, when the Magazine came out, working at mailing copies to the subscribers.

The August issue carried on its masthead for the first time the name of Ann Carll Reid, as a member of the Editorial Staff. At a Corporation meeting that same month, the Chairman's report called this "a most important landmark in the history of ONE. We now have officially for the first time, feminine representation We have wanted this from the

by and about women

first day . . . but it has not been easy to find girls who knew how to do the work, and would do it."

In July, 1954, she became Managing Editor, her years of experience in the field of printing and advertising having become increasingly valuable for the smooth operation of the Magazine. The countless details of how to thread together the various necessary editorial and production operations were tremendously developed and improved under her energetic regime, until March, 1956, she became Editor, the second the Magazine has ever had.

Every reader has seen how the Magazine has grown in stature and importance, the new departments that have been added, the way in which it has matured from a bouncy little pamphlet into a smoothly professional monthly, pressing ahead continuously to broaden knowledge and understanding in its chosen field. Ann Carll Reid's part in this development would be hard to overestimate.

Meanwhile, as a Corporation Member and Director (Chairman of the Corporation in 1956) her shrewd business knowledge and sound good sense helped carry the expansion and development of the Corporation through many a difficult, touchy situation. When it came to questions posing timidity against courage, Ann was always found on the right side, bolstering the faint-hearted and supporting each and every move for going ahead.

Her most important contribution,

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