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Betty Royan, specialist assistant to Cyrus Eaton

Biography of Betty Royan by Tom Vince

International Field Is Her Speciality (Betty Royan) by Kathie Donnelly, Topeka, Kansas, January 26, 1967

Article recounts Betty Royan's nuclear physics degrees from Smith College, her role with C&O Railroad, as Vice President of Acadia Farms in Northfield, Ohio and Deep Cove Farms in Deep Cove, Nova Scotia, and her role with the Pugwash Conferences starting in 1954.

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The Path to Pugwash: Betty Royan writes about her role in the Pugwash Conferences (The Middle School Program at Hathaway Brown School, Spring 1983

Betty Royan recounts how as Cyrus Eaton's assistant, not only was she involved in his international business pursuits, but was actively engaged with the Pugwash Conferences where Cyrus Eaton brought "thinkers of the world to 'relax together, exchange views, sharpen their own thinking and design formulas for us to live by in this brand new world.'"  Betty Royan served as "Director of the Pugwash Secretariat with responsibility for arrangement and conduct of the meetings."

Profile of Cyurs Eaton by Betty Royan from Western Reserve Historical Society

Top Railroad Women Convene Here, Pittsburg Press, March 17, 1959