Women legislators primp up

[ca. January 1961]

The five women members of the Vermont Senate (membership 30) get out their compacts, lip-sticks and combs as they primp up for a session of the Vermont General Assembly now in full swing at Montpelier, Vermont. This is the largest number of women ever elected to Vermont's upper body. Left to right (front row) Mrs. Pearl Keeler of Orleans, Mrs. Mildred Brault of St. Albans and Mrs. Hazel Wills of Bennington. (rear row) Mrs. Blanche Stoddard of South Royalton and Mrs. Alice Ward of Waitsfield.