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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Joy Anne Hudson ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Hudson, Joy Anne
LAST NAME: Hudson FIRST NAME: Joy MIDDLE NAME: Anne NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Cochran AKA 1: Brown AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 23 Jul 1915 DIED: 24 Jan 2001 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Oregon
DEATH PLACE: [of] Lake Oswego, Clackamas Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

1920 OR CENSUS - Joy A. Cochran, age 4, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Vivian A., age 39, occupation irrigation laborer, b. Oregon, and Rosie M., age 39, b. Kansas, along with Cloyd V., age 15, b. Oregon, Maynard F., age 13, b. Oregon, Daesy M., age 11, b. Oregon,  Eloine A., age 7, b. Oregon, and James D., age 2 yrs 9 mos, b. Oregon.

1930 OR CENSUS – Joy A. Cochran (14y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents Vivian A. (50y, b Oregon, married at age 22y, occupation saw mill laborer) and May (49y, b Kansas, married at age 22y) and 2 siblings, Eloine (18y, b Oregon( and Daryl (13y, b Oregon)

1st MARRIAGE – to --- Brown

2nd MARRIAGE – to Elgie Curtis Hudson

BIOGRAPHICAL:

[A photograph accompanies this artice and the caption reads"
FIRST IN PANTS is Joy Hudson, Salem, a secretary in the State Department of Education. She was first woman in her agency to wear pants suit to work"]
'No Liberation' For Male Employes
SALEM (AP) - Dress codes for women are fallin by the wayside in state government.
The latest intruder on the fashion scene is the pants suit. State agency personnel managers are caving in readily, and with a lot less hisitancy than when the miniskirt arrived.
There are no figures on how many women are wearing pants suits to work on the Capitl Mall but a spokesman in Highway Division personnel said, "You see it more and more all the time." And the women who do wear them, she said, "look awfully nice.""
They not only look nice, says Sharon Barry, who works in Highway Division administration, but "we love it as far as comfort goes. We're delighted."
Acceptance of the pants suits at the State Department of Education came swiftly. Some women took the liberty of pointing out to the male administrators that they themselves had been busily telling public schools they can't enforce dress codes.
Marguerite Wright, a public information officer for the department, said, "We were telling school districts they couldn't tell the kids how to dress as long as what they wore wasn't disturbing the studies of the others.."
"Pants suites," said Mrs. Wright, who was wearing one, "disturb people a lot less than real short minis."
Joy Hudson, a secretary, is believed to have been the first to wear a pants suit to work at the Department of Education. She said she "checked with higher echelons, and they didn't see why not."
She said the department since has produced a memo approving of pants suits but "it didn't say jeans."
Paert of what got the trend started was in "inquiring photographs" column in the Oregon State Employes Association's newsletter. A survey by Dale Leach, public relations manager, found no written policies and the "personnel people didn't want to be quoted."
Since then several agencies have either adopted policies or have just let it happen.
The Highway Division seems to have become the most flexible. It newsletter, "Personnel Observation" recently said women can wear anything they want if they think it's proper. The statement added, "The burden is on the girls themselves in determining what is proper."
The division said it isn't going to try to dictate fashion, whether the subject is "pants, midis, minis or boots."
In the Personnel Division, the policy is to dress any way that seems appropriate, said a spokesman, "as long as it's not sloppy looking. Pants suits or something equally as nice are all right, but there can't be jeans or tight-fitting clothes."
While some agency supervisors seem to be saying that pants suits are appropriate, they don't really mean it. One woman said that "some just let file clerks wear them, but not the women who meet the public."
She said the supervisors don't come right out and say it, but it's clear that "some take the position that I'd prefer that you don't."
At the Motor Vehicles Division, any woman may wear a pants suit, said Vinita Howard, head of public information for the agency. Burt she said some women at the front counters who meet the public constantly "have agreed among themselves to wear normal type attire."
Mrs. Barry, while delighted personally with the pants suit says, "Some of the men aren't too crazy about it."
Judging by sales in department stores here, there will be many more pants suits in evidence after Christmas.
A saleswoman in Meier& Frank said, "It's a terrific item. They're taking the limelight away from everything. If we just had more we'd be doing super-dooper."
There's no deal for men in state government, apparently, unless you count those who have gone Mod.
The Highway Division's "Personnel Observation" said, "The male employe shall be groomed and garbed in a manner traditional to his particular work place. Any male directly serving the public had better continue to come to work in a dres shirt, tie (that piece of cloth designed in the middle ages to keep dust from getting into the tunic) and business suit. No liberation for the male."
Oregonian, The (Portland, Oregon) 4 Jan 1971 (Section 2) 21:2

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (2001 Clackamas co) #01-02169  

OBITUARY: 

Joy Anne Hudson, July 23, 1915-Jan 24, 2001

Lake Oswego – Joy Hudson, 85, died Jan 24. She was born in Salem and graduated from Dufur High School in 1933. She worked in the Portland shipyards during World War II. She retired from the Oregon State Department of Education after many years of service. She enjoyed world travel, raising champion AKC basenji dogs and watching the Trail Blazers. Her husband, Jack, died in 1976. Survivors include her daughter, V’Anne Didzun of Lake Oswego; son, Claire Brown of Seattle; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A gathering will be 2 pm Saturday at Spring Valley Church in Zena. Arrangements are by Sunnyside Little Chapel of the Chimes in Portland. Contributions: American Cancer Society. 

Statesman Journal, Wednesday, January 31, 2001, 5C

INSCRIPTION: 

Joy A. Hudson
July 23, 1915
January 24, 2001

SOURCES: 

Saucy Survey & Photographs
SSDI

ODI
1920 OR CENSUS (Deschutes Co., Pct #20, ED 36, sheet 4B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, W Salem, ED 20, sheet 2A)

Oreg 4 Jan 1971

SJ, 31 Jan 2001, 5C

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