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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after consulting several handbooks (including What Shall We Name the Baby?), Hogan and helpers put out the new 1955 list of hurricane names: Alice, Brenda, Connie. Diane. Edith. Flora, Gladys, Hilda, lone, Janet, Katie, Linda, Martha, Nelly, Orva, Peggy, Queena. Rosa, Stella, Trudy, Ursa, Verna, Wilma, Xenia, Yvonne and Zelda. Only holdover: Alice, used because an out-of-season hurricane arrived before its name was chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Xenia, Yvonne & Zelda | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Miss Jones works in the Registrar's Office, which is on the first floor of University Hall. Directly above her on the second floor is the office of Dean Bundy and that of his secretary, Miss Verna C. Johnson. The work of Miss Johnson may not be as unusual as that of Mrs. Robinson or Miss Jones, but she certainly deserves a place on any list of "the women who run the University...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Secretaries: Keepers of the Wheels | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

...VERNA HILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1952 | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...VERNA DRESCH LARRABEE Tujunga, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...secretary to Provost Buck, Miss Verna C. Johnson supervises the work of the office and acts as a liaison between the Provost and the departments for Mr. makes all the arrangements for Mr. Buck's schedule and supervises the records of corporation actions and faculty appointments...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Unheralded Women Hold Key Jobs in University, Account for Smooth-Functioning Administration | 10/26/1951 | See Source »

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