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Arlington Is President and Founder of Alley Cat Allies Becky Robinson of Arlington is president and founder of Alley Cat Allies. On Forefront Of Feral Cat Care News, Page 3 Classifieds, Page 10 Classifieds, v Entertainment, Page 6 Uncovering Women HomeLifeStyle Code Breakers Page 9 News, Page 2 Requested in home 9-13-18 home in Requested Time sensitive material. material. sensitive Time Honoring Postmaster: Attention permit #322 permit Easton, MD Easton, PAID Neighborhood Health Postage U.S. News, Page 3 STD PRSRT Alley Cat Allies Photo September 12-18, 2018 online at www.connectionnewspapers.com News Uncovering Women Code Breakers Arlington author Event Details Meet Liza Mundy, author of describes World “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Break- Photo by Nina Subin Photo ers of World War II.” War II counter Books available for sale and signing. Date: Wednesday, Sept. 12 intelligence Time: 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Pohick Regional Library, program. Meeting Room 1 and 2, Burke the group to share their stories, By Teresa Carandang because even though the informa- The Connection tion was declassified, the women still felt rlington author Liza they shouldn’t A Mundy will talk about her talk about their most recent book, “Code work that was Girls: The Untold Story of the Liza Mundy considered confi- American Women Code Breakers dential for a long of World War II,” at the Pohick Regional Library in time. Burke on Sept. 12 starting 7 p.m. These women Mundy wrote about a group of women who worked moved to Washing- on the then top secret Venona Project, a counter in- ton, DC to work at telligence program started by the U.S. Army’s Sig- the SIS offices in Ar- nal Intelligence Service (SIS), that started during lington. They worked World War II. in Arlington Hall, a More than 10,000 codebreaking women were building that is now on instrumental in deciphering encrypted messages, the National Register of some of which were Japanese and Soviet. This led Historic Places. The 100- to the arrest of several spies like Americans Julius acre Ar- lington Hall Station is pres- and Ethel Rosenberg, British intelligence officer Kim ently the Department of State Foreign Service In- Philby, British diplomat Donald Maclean, and the stitute. Located at the corner of South George Ma- German physicist Klaus Fuchs. son Drive and Arlington Boulevard, the former girls Mundy describes some of these women — Angeline school, Arlington Hall Junior College for Girls, be- Nanni, Gloria Forbes, Mildred Hayes, Carrie Berry, came the headquarters of the codebreakers during Jo Miller Deafenbaugh, Joan Malone Callahan, Gene World War II. By coincidence, Mundy’s home is a Grabeel — and their lives and what they did to aid few minutes away from Arlington Hall. the development of computers, code-breaking and “Code Figures” is a new addition to books written cybersecurity. Mundy dispels the notion that women about the little known but important work of women held unimportant roles during the war, and that they that started during World War II like “Hidden Fig- in fact did most of the codebreaking work in the ures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Venona project. the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win Mundy first learned the stories of these women the Space Race” by Margot Lee Shetterly, and “Rise from a declassified Venona 1995 file written by Na- of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, tional Security Agency (NSA) historian, Robert L. from Missiles to the Moon to Mars” by Nathalia Holt. Benson. He wrote that most of the members of the Mundy, a former Washington Post writer and cur- cryptanalytic unit of SIS, the precursor to the NSA, rently a senior fellow at New America, has written were women, and he was able to interview a few of extensively about women including “The Richer Sex,” them. “Michelle” (a biography of First Lady Michelle Based on Benson’s article, Mundy reviewed ros- Obama), “Why is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women,” ters, reached out to family members identified by “Playing the Granny Card,” “Wendy Davis, the Most the NSA and requested alumnae records from col- Judged Woman in America,” “Monica Lewinsky Re- leges like Goucher and Wellesley. That wasn’t considered,” “The Secret History of the Women in Mundy’s only challenge; once she found these women the Senate,” “The New Power Wives of Capitol Hill,” she also had to convince the surviving members of “Maternal Truths,” among other articles and essays. 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Not just in the what they were ordered to do. United States, but around Alley Cat Allies will attempt to bring jus- the world,” pointed out Arlington resident tice to harmed cats in these cases and teach Becky Robinson. She is founder and presi- these communities about appropriate, pro- dent of the international cat advocacy group gressive solutions to outdoor cats via TNR, Alley Cat Allies, based in Bethesda, Md. according to Robinson. “Unfortunately, we continually come up Robinson has worked with organizations against cases in which outdated practices throughout Virginia and from coast to coast. and attitudes have ruled the day,” she Allies Photo Cat Alley The reach of Alley Cat Allies and willing- added. “This means that lots of cats suffer ness to opt for TNR has now traveled to needlessly. And that cannot be allowed to dozens of countries. Inquiries from all over happen.” the globe regularly come into the Bethesda Robinson started her organization in 1990 office. while living in Arlington. She and a friend “It’s still hard for me to believe what I wanted to help cats seen frequently in an started in an alley all those years ago pio- Adams-Morgan alleyway in Washington. neered so much for so many cats,” said They knew that if they took the cats to Becky Robinson of Arlington is president and founder of Alley Cat Allies. Robinson while reflecting on 28 years in the local shelter, they would be killed be- business. “It is enormously gratifying.” cause they would be judged too wild to be basics while on the operating table and an said. She says her organization is now sup- adopted out as pets. So, they sought a non- ear tip, which is the trimming of the corner Despite this change of how to approach ported by thousands of individuals and re- lethal solution. of the left ear as a signal that the cat has the issue of feral cats, occasional aberra- ceives no government funding. Programs “We ultimately had all the cats spayed or already been sterilized. tions surface. For example, there are two range from organizing grassroots responses neutered and vaccinated and then returned These days, however, TNR is considered 2018 cases on which Alley Cat Allies has for cat concerns to lobbying for cat-friendly to their outdoor home while also socializ- mainstream by most animal protection been focused recently. legislation to ensuring justice is sought for ing and finding homes for the small kittens,” groups. It was Robinson’s efforts these last In Iowa, one town’s police department feline cruelty victims. said Robinson. 28 years that effected such change. had been encouraging people to trap and “Alley Cat Allies always has a zillion items Later, she took her newfound knowledge “Alley Cat Allies has been on the cusp of then shoot cats. on our plate demanding response,” about what is now known worldwide as change and has led the way for the entire “That was some uneducated person’s so- Robinson said. “But our main goal for the Trap-Neuter-Return to the rest of the na- animal sheltering field. Many people did not lution to outdoor cats,” Robinson said. “This future is for all animal shelters to have non- tion. Pioneered in England, TNR was a prac- agree with TNR because it meant allowing shows that shelters need more oversight, lethal control programs for cats and kittens tice long eschewed by major national hu- feral cats — also known as community cats regulation and training for employees and — which is what the public wants. TNR mane organizations. Cats who are TNR’d — outside, but nowadays almost every hu- volunteers.” should be the law of the land in all the also receive a rabies vaccine, other medical mane society and SPCA supports it,” she Meanwhile, the director of an animal con- states.” State resolution cites Honoring Neighborhood Health organization’s 20 years of service. el. Paul Krizek presented Neighbor- than two decades, our driving focus at Dhood Health’s board of directors Neighborhood Health has been to expand with a resolution recognizing the access to primary care for low-income and organization for its 20 years of service in uninsured Northern Virginians. Underpin- Northern Virginia.
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