Dryden, Muriel Anne, 1911-

A native of Waterloo, Iowa, Muriel Dryden spent her professional career in government service, having enlisted in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1944. From 1944 to 1956 she worked in New York City in communications for the Office of War Information and the Voice of America, handling news desk copy. From 1956 until her retirement in 1974, she worked in Washington, D.C., first with the Voice of America under the auspices of the United States Information Agency and later as a researcher for the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare.

From 1969 to 1974 she worked at the White House during the Nixon administration as a mail analyst in the Executive Office Building. Dryden also worked part-time at the Washington bureaus of several news publications including Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Baltimore Sun. Upon retirement in 1974, Dryden began a study of George Lamsa's English translation of the Bible from the Peshitta (Syriac), but the work was never completed.