"El Paso Girl Invades Man's World, Wins":
Daydreams usually are like fleecy summer clouds that break up and disappear on a gentle breeze. Ambition is made of sterner stuff. Imbued with a pioneering spirit born of daydreams sustained by ambition, a young El Paso woman has successfully invaded a field of industry and science long dominated by men. She is Freda Marie Peters, one of the country's few female radiographers. Miss Peters is employed by the Grumman Aircraft Enngineering Corp. at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, where she is specializing in the growing field of non-destructive testing with radioisotopes, gamma and x-rays, and other newly-developed techniques. Her job at Grumman involves x-ray inspection of castings, materials, parts, and welds. Completing a course in industrial radiography given by scientists and engineers at Picker X-Ray Corporation at the Picker Reserach Center in Celeveland, Ohio, she was graduated at the top of her class. She achieved a score of 99 and is one of the few persons - including some top men industrial radiographers - who have received such a high score for the course, Picker officials said. Miss Peters was awarded a diploma and received commendation after studying gamma and x-rays, and related technical subjects, and using the latest radiation machines and testing equipment developed by Picker for science and industry. She was the first woman to take the course, which is required by the Atomic Energy Commission for all persons it licenses to handle radioactive isotopes. In 1962 a Grumman house journal hailed Miss Peters as "the only woman in the country who is qualified as an industrial radiographer". Recently, she has been studying and developing advanced, revoltionary processes for testing metal welds and materials for defects. In a technical speech September 18 before a group of scientists and aircraft engineers, which is being published by Grumman, Miss Peters discussed an x-ray technique for localizing and pinpointing the depth of defects in construction material which she developed. Previously, there were methods which required special equipment and complicated geometric computations. The new technique requires no special equipment and only simple mathematics. This has saved the company money and man-hours. With the comparitively rapid location of a defect in a weld or material, hundreds of hours spent in making repairs have been eliminated. What was once a major repair can be a minor repair now because the new x-ray system provides information on the exact distance of a defect from the surface of the material that is being examined. Miss Peters' achievements have been acclaimed by trade publications with national circulation - Welding Engineer, a magazine devoted to joining and severing of materials, and the magazine Nondestructive Testing, official journal of the Society of Nondestructive Testing. "Quite a gal, this Freda Peters!" National Secretary Philip D. Johnson of the Society of Nondestructive testing, wrote. Miss Peters' parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Peters of 313 Terry Court. She was born in Tuscon, Arizona, where her father was employed by the Southern Pacific (Railroad) as master mechanic. From childhood days, the attractive young woman's ambition was to become a medical doctor and surgeon. After the Peters family moved from Tuscon to El Paso in 1947, Miss Peters attended Texas Western College and worked part time as cashier for Interstate Theaters. She still dreamed of becoming a surgeon. "When she finally saw the odds of becoming a surgeon, she turned to the nearest available subject", her father recalled. "In a quiet way, she was determined to make a career for herself. She found a job as a student x-ray technician at the Dr. George Turner X-Ray and Clinical Laboratory. She worked under the direction of Dr. Delphine von Briesen. After she became an registered x-ray technician at the clinic, she raised her sights to wider fields. She told us she was going to New York City, which she had visited twice with her mother. When we asked her why she wanted to go to New York, she said 'There is big money in the East'. I told her, 'You will be back here in 30 days'. She replied 'No, I am not coming back'. For her, New York was the place of dreams fulfilled. She likes the better things of life, such as classical music, ballet, and opera, which New York offers. She corresponded with the secretary of the Society Of Registered X-Ray Technicians of which she was a member, and knew that she could get work before she left El Paso. Her first job in New York was x-ray technician in a hospital for garment workers. She also worked for a doctor, and then went to Grumman, where she found what she wanted. She hasn't realized her ambition to become a surgeon, but she has directed her talents to a challenging field." Mr. Peters recalled that his daughter liked to probe into machinery. "She usually helped me when I was working on the family automobile, and it wasn't too long before she was doing the work and I was merely handing her the tools when she asked for them", he chuckled. Mr. Peters was born in El Paso and educated in El Paso schools. As a youth, he was employed by the El Paso Herald and the Times. Then he went to work in the G.H. and S.A. Railroad shops, and advanced to supervisor of mechanics for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tuscon in 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Peters have two other children. Joseph A. Peters is in the advertising business in Lima, Peru. A daughter, Mrs. Richard F. Van Praag, resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taken from the El Paso Herald-Post, 9 Jan 1964, an article by Chester Cope.
Daydreams usually are like fleecy summer clouds that break up and disappear on a gentle breeze. Ambition is made of sterner stuff. Imbued with a pioneering spirit born of daydreams sustained by ambition, a young El Paso woman has successfully invaded a field of industry and science long dominated by men. She is Freda Marie Peters, one of the country's few female radiographers. Miss Peters is employed by the Grumman Aircraft Enngineering Corp. at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, where she is specializing in the growing field of non-destructive testing with radioisotopes, gamma and x-rays, and other newly-developed techniques. Her job at Grumman involves x-ray inspection of castings, materials, parts, and welds. Completing a course in industrial radiography given by scientists and engineers at Picker X-Ray Corporation at the Picker Reserach Center in Celeveland, Ohio, she was graduated at the top of her class. She achieved a score of 99 and is one of the few persons - including some top men industrial radiographers - who have received such a high score for the course, Picker officials said. Miss Peters was awarded a diploma and received commendation after studying gamma and x-rays, and related technical subjects, and using the latest radiation machines and testing equipment developed by Picker for science and industry. She was the first woman to take the course, which is required by the Atomic Energy Commission for all persons it licenses to handle radioactive isotopes. In 1962 a Grumman house journal hailed Miss Peters as "the only woman in the country who is qualified as an industrial radiographer". Recently, she has been studying and developing advanced, revoltionary processes for testing metal welds and materials for defects. In a technical speech September 18 before a group of scientists and aircraft engineers, which is being published by Grumman, Miss Peters discussed an x-ray technique for localizing and pinpointing the depth of defects in construction material which she developed. Previously, there were methods which required special equipment and complicated geometric computations. The new technique requires no special equipment and only simple mathematics. This has saved the company money and man-hours. With the comparitively rapid location of a defect in a weld or material, hundreds of hours spent in making repairs have been eliminated. What was once a major repair can be a minor repair now because the new x-ray system provides information on the exact distance of a defect from the surface of the material that is being examined. Miss Peters' achievements have been acclaimed by trade publications with national circulation - Welding Engineer, a magazine devoted to joining and severing of materials, and the magazine Nondestructive Testing, official journal of the Society of Nondestructive Testing. "Quite a gal, this Freda Peters!" National Secretary Philip D. Johnson of the Society of Nondestructive testing, wrote. Miss Peters' parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Peters of 313 Terry Court. She was born in Tuscon, Arizona, where her father was employed by the Southern Pacific (Railroad) as master mechanic. From childhood days, the attractive young woman's ambition was to become a medical doctor and surgeon. After the Peters family moved from Tuscon to El Paso in 1947, Miss Peters attended Texas Western College and worked part time as cashier for Interstate Theaters. She still dreamed of becoming a surgeon. "When she finally saw the odds of becoming a surgeon, she turned to the nearest available subject", her father recalled. "In a quiet way, she was determined to make a career for herself. She found a job as a student x-ray technician at the Dr. George Turner X-Ray and Clinical Laboratory. She worked under the direction of Dr. Delphine von Briesen. After she became an registered x-ray technician at the clinic, she raised her sights to wider fields. She told us she was going to New York City, which she had visited twice with her mother. When we asked her why she wanted to go to New York, she said 'There is big money in the East'. I told her, 'You will be back here in 30 days'. She replied 'No, I am not coming back'. For her, New York was the place of dreams fulfilled. She likes the better things of life, such as classical music, ballet, and opera, which New York offers. She corresponded with the secretary of the Society Of Registered X-Ray Technicians of which she was a member, and knew that she could get work before she left El Paso. Her first job in New York was x-ray technician in a hospital for garment workers. She also worked for a doctor, and then went to Grumman, where she found what she wanted. She hasn't realized her ambition to become a surgeon, but she has directed her talents to a challenging field." Mr. Peters recalled that his daughter liked to probe into machinery. "She usually helped me when I was working on the family automobile, and it wasn't too long before she was doing the work and I was merely handing her the tools when she asked for them", he chuckled. Mr. Peters was born in El Paso and educated in El Paso schools. As a youth, he was employed by the El Paso Herald and the Times. Then he went to work in the G.H. and S.A. Railroad shops, and advanced to supervisor of mechanics for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tuscon in 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Peters have two other children. Joseph A. Peters is in the advertising business in Lima, Peru. A daughter, Mrs. Richard F. Van Praag, resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taken from the El Paso Herald-Post, 9 Jan 1964, an article by Chester Cope.
"El Paso Girl Invades Man's World, Wins":
Daydreams usually are like fleecy summer clouds that break up and disappear on a gentle breeze. Ambition is made of sterner stuff. Imbued with a pioneering spirit born of daydreams sustained by ambition, a young El Paso woman has successfully invaded a field of industry and science long dominated by men. She is Freda Marie Peters, one of the country's few female radiographers. Miss Peters is employed by the Grumman Aircraft Enngineering Corp. at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, where she is specializing in the growing field of non-destructive testing with radioisotopes, gamma and x-rays, and other newly-developed techniques. Her job at Grumman involves x-ray inspection of castings, materials, parts, and welds. Completing a course in industrial radiography given by scientists and engineers at Picker X-Ray Corporation at the Picker Reserach Center in Celeveland, Ohio, she was graduated at the top of her class. She achieved a score of 99 and is one of the few persons - including some top men industrial radiographers - who have received such a high score for the course, Picker officials said. Miss Peters was awarded a diploma and received commendation after studying gamma and x-rays, and related technical subjects, and using the latest radiation machines and testing equipment developed by Picker for science and industry. She was the first woman to take the course, which is required by the Atomic Energy Commission for all persons it licenses to handle radioactive isotopes. In 1962 a Grumman house journal hailed Miss Peters as "the only woman in the country who is qualified as an industrial radiographer". Recently, she has been studying and developing advanced, revoltionary processes for testing metal welds and materials for defects. In a technical speech September 18 before a group of scientists and aircraft engineers, which is being published by Grumman, Miss Peters discussed an x-ray technique for localizing and pinpointing the depth of defects in construction material which she developed. Previously, there were methods which required special equipment and complicated geometric computations. The new technique requires no special equipment and only simple mathematics. This has saved the company money and man-hours. With the comparitively rapid location of a defect in a weld or material, hundreds of hours spent in making repairs have been eliminated. What was once a major repair can be a minor repair now because the new x-ray system provides information on the exact distance of a defect from the surface of the material that is being examined. Miss Peters' achievements have been acclaimed by trade publications with national circulation - Welding Engineer, a magazine devoted to joining and severing of materials, and the magazine Nondestructive Testing, official journal of the Society of Nondestructive Testing. "Quite a gal, this Freda Peters!" National Secretary Philip D. Johnson of the Society of Nondestructive testing, wrote. Miss Peters' parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Peters of 313 Terry Court. She was born in Tuscon, Arizona, where her father was employed by the Southern Pacific (Railroad) as master mechanic. From childhood days, the attractive young woman's ambition was to become a medical doctor and surgeon. After the Peters family moved from Tuscon to El Paso in 1947, Miss Peters attended Texas Western College and worked part time as cashier for Interstate Theaters. She still dreamed of becoming a surgeon. "When she finally saw the odds of becoming a surgeon, she turned to the nearest available subject", her father recalled. "In a quiet way, she was determined to make a career for herself. She found a job as a student x-ray technician at the Dr. George Turner X-Ray and Clinical Laboratory. She worked under the direction of Dr. Delphine von Briesen. After she became an registered x-ray technician at the clinic, she raised her sights to wider fields. She told us she was going to New York City, which she had visited twice with her mother. When we asked her why she wanted to go to New York, she said 'There is big money in the East'. I told her, 'You will be back here in 30 days'. She replied 'No, I am not coming back'. For her, New York was the place of dreams fulfilled. She likes the better things of life, such as classical music, ballet, and opera, which New York offers. She corresponded with the secretary of the Society Of Registered X-Ray Technicians of which she was a member, and knew that she could get work before she left El Paso. Her first job in New York was x-ray technician in a hospital for garment workers. She also worked for a doctor, and then went to Grumman, where she found what she wanted. She hasn't realized her ambition to become a surgeon, but she has directed her talents to a challenging field." Mr. Peters recalled that his daughter liked to probe into machinery. "She usually helped me when I was working on the family automobile, and it wasn't too long before she was doing the work and I was merely handing her the tools when she asked for them", he chuckled. Mr. Peters was born in El Paso and educated in El Paso schools. As a youth, he was employed by the El Paso Herald and the Times. Then he went to work in the G.H. and S.A. Railroad shops, and advanced to supervisor of mechanics for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tuscon in 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Peters have two other children. Joseph A. Peters is in the advertising business in Lima, Peru. A daughter, Mrs. Richard F. Van Praag, resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taken from the El Paso Herald-Post, 9 Jan 1964, an article by Chester Cope.
Daydreams usually are like fleecy summer clouds that break up and disappear on a gentle breeze. Ambition is made of sterner stuff. Imbued with a pioneering spirit born of daydreams sustained by ambition, a young El Paso woman has successfully invaded a field of industry and science long dominated by men. She is Freda Marie Peters, one of the country's few female radiographers. Miss Peters is employed by the Grumman Aircraft Enngineering Corp. at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, where she is specializing in the growing field of non-destructive testing with radioisotopes, gamma and x-rays, and other newly-developed techniques. Her job at Grumman involves x-ray inspection of castings, materials, parts, and welds. Completing a course in industrial radiography given by scientists and engineers at Picker X-Ray Corporation at the Picker Reserach Center in Celeveland, Ohio, she was graduated at the top of her class. She achieved a score of 99 and is one of the few persons - including some top men industrial radiographers - who have received such a high score for the course, Picker officials said. Miss Peters was awarded a diploma and received commendation after studying gamma and x-rays, and related technical subjects, and using the latest radiation machines and testing equipment developed by Picker for science and industry. She was the first woman to take the course, which is required by the Atomic Energy Commission for all persons it licenses to handle radioactive isotopes. In 1962 a Grumman house journal hailed Miss Peters as "the only woman in the country who is qualified as an industrial radiographer". Recently, she has been studying and developing advanced, revoltionary processes for testing metal welds and materials for defects. In a technical speech September 18 before a group of scientists and aircraft engineers, which is being published by Grumman, Miss Peters discussed an x-ray technique for localizing and pinpointing the depth of defects in construction material which she developed. Previously, there were methods which required special equipment and complicated geometric computations. The new technique requires no special equipment and only simple mathematics. This has saved the company money and man-hours. With the comparitively rapid location of a defect in a weld or material, hundreds of hours spent in making repairs have been eliminated. What was once a major repair can be a minor repair now because the new x-ray system provides information on the exact distance of a defect from the surface of the material that is being examined. Miss Peters' achievements have been acclaimed by trade publications with national circulation - Welding Engineer, a magazine devoted to joining and severing of materials, and the magazine Nondestructive Testing, official journal of the Society of Nondestructive Testing. "Quite a gal, this Freda Peters!" National Secretary Philip D. Johnson of the Society of Nondestructive testing, wrote. Miss Peters' parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Peters of 313 Terry Court. She was born in Tuscon, Arizona, where her father was employed by the Southern Pacific (Railroad) as master mechanic. From childhood days, the attractive young woman's ambition was to become a medical doctor and surgeon. After the Peters family moved from Tuscon to El Paso in 1947, Miss Peters attended Texas Western College and worked part time as cashier for Interstate Theaters. She still dreamed of becoming a surgeon. "When she finally saw the odds of becoming a surgeon, she turned to the nearest available subject", her father recalled. "In a quiet way, she was determined to make a career for herself. She found a job as a student x-ray technician at the Dr. George Turner X-Ray and Clinical Laboratory. She worked under the direction of Dr. Delphine von Briesen. After she became an registered x-ray technician at the clinic, she raised her sights to wider fields. She told us she was going to New York City, which she had visited twice with her mother. When we asked her why she wanted to go to New York, she said 'There is big money in the East'. I told her, 'You will be back here in 30 days'. She replied 'No, I am not coming back'. For her, New York was the place of dreams fulfilled. She likes the better things of life, such as classical music, ballet, and opera, which New York offers. She corresponded with the secretary of the Society Of Registered X-Ray Technicians of which she was a member, and knew that she could get work before she left El Paso. Her first job in New York was x-ray technician in a hospital for garment workers. She also worked for a doctor, and then went to Grumman, where she found what she wanted. She hasn't realized her ambition to become a surgeon, but she has directed her talents to a challenging field." Mr. Peters recalled that his daughter liked to probe into machinery. "She usually helped me when I was working on the family automobile, and it wasn't too long before she was doing the work and I was merely handing her the tools when she asked for them", he chuckled. Mr. Peters was born in El Paso and educated in El Paso schools. As a youth, he was employed by the El Paso Herald and the Times. Then he went to work in the G.H. and S.A. Railroad shops, and advanced to supervisor of mechanics for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tuscon in 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Peters have two other children. Joseph A. Peters is in the advertising business in Lima, Peru. A daughter, Mrs. Richard F. Van Praag, resides in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taken from the El Paso Herald-Post, 9 Jan 1964, an article by Chester Cope.
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