George, Virginia Heim, 1908-

YWCA overseas secretary; USO official.

Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, 1908; B.A. economics, University of Wisconsin, 1929; Program Director and Camp Director, YWCA, working with industrial workers in Kansas City, Utica, and Pittsburgh, 1929-40; graduate study in group social work, Carnegie Institue of Technology, 1937; Executive Director, YWCA, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1940-43; Regional Assistant Director of USO, Brazil, Caribbean Area, 1943-45; Program Consultant, YWCA, Czechoslovakia, with two-week special assignment working with women's groups in Germany as part of the military government, Women's Affairs Section, 1946-48; National YWCA executive positions in Oakland, California, Yakima, Washington, and Utica, New York, 1948-66. YWCA advisor in Taipei, Taiwan, and Lima, Peru, 1962-71. Executive Director, YWCA, Omaha, Nebraska, 1971.