Burke, Angela Janszen.

Angela Janszen (1899-1987) was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She worked at a variety of clerical jobs both in federal civil service and the private sector. It was while working for a lumber company that she became fascinated with forestry and set her sights on joining the Forest Service. Undeterred by the service's policy against hiring women as forest rangers, she jumped at the chance for a temporary position as clerk in the Washington, D.C., office in 1933, and remained with the Forest Service off and on for the next fourteen years. In 1942 she began her association with the Alaska Spruce Log Program (ASLP), the goal of which was to procure Sitka spruce for manufacture of the de Havilland Mosquito bomber. She worked first out of Seattle, hiring and purchasing for the program. In 1943 she transferred to the ASLP logging camp at Edna Bay, Alaska, as clerk-statistician, and soon became official photographer as well. When the program ended in 1944, she arranged its records for federal archives. She retired from the Forest Service in 1947 and in 1948 married Eugene Burke. The couple resided in Florida, where Angela remained active in promoting Forest Service values in local schools.

From the description of Angela Janszen Burke papers, 1933-1986. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 84683382