Left to right:

• Katie Louchheim (accompanying the award recipients), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chairwoman of the Federal Woman’s Award Board of Trustees;
• Bessie Margolin, Associate Solicitor for the Department of Labor;
• Dr. Eleanor L. Makel, Supervisory Medical Officer of Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital under the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare;
• Verna C. Mohagen, Director of Personnel for the Soil Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture;
• President Kennedy;
• Blanche W. Noyes, Air Marketing Specialist for the Centers and Towers Project Branch of the Installation and Material Service in the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA);
• Eleanor C. Pressly, Head of the Vehicles Section in the Spacecraft Integration and Sounding Rocket Division at the Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA);
• Katharine Mather, Chief of the Petrography Section in the Special Investigations Branch at the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Department of the Army.