Women at Work: Part 2

Author: Sun and Flare
Released 6 February 2007

Photograph by Aramco Photographer, Seal

Sun and Flare - September 7, 1955

Lois Grimmer of the Bachelor Housing Section, Residential Services, makes full use of her warm and pleasant personality in handling the many requests for furniture, painting, light bulbs and repairs received by her office. An East Chicago, Indiana girl, she studied English and education at St. Marys, Notre Dame, and worked for a while as a legal secretary and Pullman Standard researcher before arriving in Saudi Arabia some 31 month ago. Both before and after her arrival in Dhahran, Lois traveled extensively and during her last long vacation she spent some time visiting relatives who are living in France. As for foreign work, "There's nothing like it," she says.

Photograph by Aramco Photographer

Sun and Flare - September 14, 1955

Edna E. Allen, secretary in the Ras Tanura Senior Staff School, is from Los Angeles, California. This attractive housewife had done similar work before her marriage, and when her teen-age daughter left the Field for Stateside schooling Edna decided to return to her steno pad and typewriter. Mrs. Allen arrived in the Field in February of 1952 to join her husband, Nick. The personable wife enjoys golfing and swimming facilities in Ras Tanura, with bridge another of her hobbies. She is an active member of the Women's Group and was chairman of the Women's Group section of the Fourth of July celebration in Ras Tanura. She will have an active part in that organization's share in the Beaux Arts Ball.

Edna Allen's friends marvel at the quantities of mail she receives. There is a good reason for this. Her formula - she writes a letter a day!

Photograph by Aramco Photographer, Seal

Sun and Flare - September 21, 1955

Enthusiasm with a capital E seems to be the best way to describe June Ask, secretary to the superintendent of Dhahran's largest department, Engineering and Mechanical Services. This tall, slender Montanan was working at the Puget Sound naval ship yard in Bremerton, Washington, when she decided to join Aramco. She moved to Saudi Arabia in 1953.

Since her arrival she has been constantly in the midst of most of Dhahran's activities, serving as A.E.A. secretary for 15 months. She is one of the square stepping and the folk stepping groups' greatest promoters and is also a member of the Dhahran Golf Association.

Her photo album is crammed with wonderful shots of her round-the-world travels during which she took time enough from camera-clicking to collect beautiful furnishings for her room.

Sun and Flare published every Wednesday by the Public Relations Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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