Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, had just received the Leslie Dana Gold Medal at the June 1937 Association for Research in 'phthalmology meeting when this photograph was distributed. A Radcliffe College graduate, Hathaway had earned a maste's from CCNY, worked as a teacher and public health researcher, and then during the 1920s began organizing sight-saving courses in schools