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the thing to be done right. He would see that Walker made the proper remarks and that Walker showed the proper attention. He invited to join with the mayor in Madame Curie's reception some of the leading scientists of Columbia University and New York University. They would be with the mayor when he received her. There were people whose names, status and position she knew and respected. He also on that occasion arranged to have a number of leading women of the City of New York - really leading women, women who had taken some important part in some aspects of intellectual and social life. I remember that Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College, was there. They were women who had taken some leadership either in the intellectual or scientific aspects. At least one of the great women doctors was there. I think it was Helen Baldwin.

At least, Walker was alerted to realize that there were women who should be in on that reception. The person who was operating on that too and who was really instrumental in bringing Madame Curie over was Missy Maloney (Mrs. William J. Maloney). She was a great writer for the New York Herald Tribune. She's dead now (1952) and has been for some time. She had engineered the bringing over of Madame Curie and the raising of a very sizable sum of money from the women of America given to Madame Curie to continue her experiments,