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Lord, Mary Pillsbury, 1904-1978

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Officers At the Retreat Ceremony in Caserta, Italy

From left to right WAC Lieutenant Colonel Katharine Goodwin, WAC Staff Director for Army Service Forces; Mary (Mrs. Oswald) Lord, Chairman of the National Civilian Advisory Committee for WAC Affairs; Captain Lillian Harris, Executive Officer 2629th WAC Battalion and Major Helen Hanson, WAC Staff Director in Italy pose for a photograph at the retreat ceremony in the WAC Battalion Area, Caserta, Italy.

Mrs. Oswald Lord Talks with Fifth Army Women's Army Corps Soldiers (WACs)

Mary (Mrs. Oswald) Lord, Chairman of the National Civilian Advisory Committee for WAC Affairs (right, beside woman with glasses) and Lieutenant Colonel Katharine Goodwin (center foreground, next to post, facing camera) talk with unidentified Fifth Army WACs who are leaving Caserta, Italy to return to the United States for redeployment.

Truman Receiving Report from United Nations Committee Members

President Harry S. Truman (third from left) in the Oval Office, receiving a report on the work of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), prepared by the United States Committee for UNICEF. From left to right: Under Secretary of State James Webb; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; the President; Mary (Mrs. Oswald B.) Lord, chairman of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF; Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau and U.S. delegate to UNICEF; and Dallas Dort, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.