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The Sunday News and Tribune from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 13

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Jefferson City, Missouri
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13
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SWK.V.V. VI.V^\MW Society NEWS andiJlfRIBUNE Section JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1966 AT; Mrs. Larry (Cathryn) Adams, private secretary to Warren-E. Hearnes, enjoys knitting during the evening when time allows. Mrs.

Adams is the mother of five children: Mrs James Winscott, Tucson, Patrick Adams, a student at the University of Missouri; James, John and Jean of the home. With three children at home, Mrs. Adams is a busy housewife and mother after office hours. Mrs. Adams was educated in Cape Girardeau public schools and'received a degree in education from Southeast Missouri State College.

She also served as. secretary to Governor Hearnes when he was Secretary of State and Majority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives. Mrs. Betty Spurgeon Satterfield, Executive the Missouri Dental Association, irresponsible for administrative actions of the Association including the financial and membership records, official correspondence, proceedings of the Association and its Board of Governors, annual meeting, official publication and state-wide membership activities of 1.850 dentists who are members of the Missouri Dental Association. Mrs.

Satterfield is a graduate of the School of Education, University of Missouri. Her husband was a Navy fighter pilot-on the USS Yorktown, and was killed in action in December, 1943. Mrs. Satterfield has'been employed by the Missouri Dental Association for 22 years. She and her mother, Mrs.

M. E. Spurgeon live together at 1201 W. High St. Mrs.

Satterfield's hobby is golf. Every Executive Needs a Every top executive needs a capable secretary who makes Ms business life easier and who helps to carry out his-plans and out all the unnecessary interruptions that cut into his day. He needs someone who can dependably take over time-consuming details. There is no magic shortcut to success as an executive secretary. An executive secretary intimately in her boss's business activities-in small ways and large and her horizons widen as she grows.

Her job is a creative one. If she does her work well, she continually takes on more and more important administrative duties, duties that have nothing to do with typing and shorthand. In fact, many executive secretaries have their own secretaries to do routine tasks. Jefferson City ii fortunate in having many AT RIGHT--Mrs. James M.

(Virginia) Davis, secretary to Thomas D. Graham, Speaker, House of Representatives, since the beginning of the 73rd General Assembly in January 1965, files some House bills. Mrs. Davis was secretary to former Gov. John M.

Dalton for 12 years. Prior to that, was secretary to the late Gov. Forrest Smith. Other interests of Mrs. Davis include secretary-treasurer of Baptist Church Circle; vice-regent of Jane Randolph Jefferson Chapter, DAR; and treasurer of Chapter JB, P.E.O.

Sisterhood. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have one son, James M. Davis III, who will soon be released from the U.S.

Navy. AT LEFT Mrs. V. M. (Marge) Guemmer, Executive Secretary, Missouri Association of Independent Insurance Agents, has served as Executive Secretary since 1956.

The Association functions through 15 active committees. Mrs. Guemmer helps guide, plan, develop and coordinate the activities of these committees and to communicate alj business to'all the members and to related segments of the insurance industry. When Mrs. Guemmer was asked about hobbies she replied, "I spend so much time in my office or on the job around the State that it excludes much time for other interests.

I enjoy several good books a year and a small collection of records. The deepest joy of my life, and of my husband's also, is our three grandchildren, Terri, Tom and Julie Proctor." capable and well-qualified executive, private or administrative type secretaries. Seen on this page are four such secretaries: Mrs. Carry (Cathryn) Adams, 1431 Green Berry Road, private secretary to Gov. Warren E.

Hearnes. Mrs. James M. (Virginia) Davis, 1406 Rehagen Lane, secretary to D. Graham, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Mrs. Betty Spurgeon Satterfield, 1201 W. High Executive Secretary of the Missouri Dental Association. Mrs. V.

M. (Marge) Guemmer, 414 Meier Drive, Executive Secretary of the Missouri Association of Independent Insurance Agents. Certainly the person who chooses to become a secretary chooses an ancient and respected profession. There can be deep sense of satisfaction to the secretary who finds her place with an employer who is engaged in an that, is of interest to her, whether it is social, political, scientific, religious, business or military. The word is sometimes used mistakenly for the word "secretary." However, the dictionary defines a stenographer "one who takes shorthand." Thug, it can while' a secretary is a stenographer, it does not necessarily follow that the stenographer is a secretary.

1 For the duties and responsibilities of the secretary go far beyond the-mere taking and-transcribing of dictation..

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