Dr. Carolyn Leach Huntoon, Epsilon Beta, Northwestern State - Louisiana, Woman of the Year 1977

History was made within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1983 when Dr. Carolyn Leach Huntoon was named special assistant to the director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. She became the first woman to be named to the management staff of the center. One of the foremost scientists in the United States, Carolyn served as chief of the Space Metabolism and Biochemistry Branch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She holds the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA. The program resulted in the required confidence to commit man to long duration space flights. Published reports of these studies stand as a unique source of information for future space flights. In 1973, Dr. Huntoon was a exchange scientist in space medicine in Russia. She has been invited to deliver scientific papers before numerous national and international meetings and is the author of more than 100 published papers. She was named as one of six Outstanding Women in Science Today in America. She is also the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award as an outstanding employee in federal civil service and received special recognition from President Gerald Ford.