Cynthia Welch Hlass, real estate broker and former Atlanta NOW president, was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1944. She attended Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois) two years during the early 1960s, then left to become an airline attendant. Hlass graduated from Mercer University [Atlanta, Georgia] in 1977 with a dual major in psychology and sociology. It was while she was finishing her degree at Mercer that she served as Atlanta NOW President (1973-1974) and as Legislative Coordinator (1974-1975) for Georgia NOW. Hlass was a real estate broker in Gwinnett County for over 30 years. She died March 3, 2003, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
From the description of Cynthia W. Hlass papers, 1970-1976. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 62110631
