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Rockville Woman Named Maryland's Top Female
Cordelia Benneth, a Rockville construction engineer and the first woman hired by the USAEC in this role, was named Maryland Outstanding Young Woman of the Year 1968. A Virginia Tech graduate, she later worked in Aiken South Carolina and Washington DC, earning honors from state and national engineering groups. Benneth has held roles with University of Tucson and received a Arizona Governor’s Merit Citation for engineering advances. She has led and participated in numerous professional and collegiate engineering societies, including Chi Epsilon and Kappa Theta Epsilon.
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Rockville
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Maryland
Cordelia Anne Benneth
John Fl. Benneth
Lexington
Virginia
Dexter Otis Arnold
General Federation of Women’ S Clubs
Arnold
America
Miss Benneth
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
USAEC
Aiken
South Carolina
South Carolina Society of Engineers
Washington, D.C
Ben- Sneth
University of Tucson
Jack Williams
Arizona
American Society of Civil Engineers
Society of Women Engineers
National Society of Professional Engineers
National Business and Professional Women's Club of America
WPI
American Society of Engineering
Cooperative Engineering Society
American Road Builders’ Association
Association For the Advancement of Engineering
Lutheran Students’ Association
Institute
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Chi 'Epsilon
Kappa Theta Epsiilon
John L. Cain
Kappa Theta Epsilon Society
Engineering
Chi Epsilon
Kappa Theta Epsilon
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Pi Tau Chi
Beta Rhe Delta