Senator Margaret Chase Smith (1897 – 1995, left) congratulates the SPARS (the US Coast Guard Women’s Reserve) on their upcoming 10th anniversary, November 1952. Accepting on behalf of the SPARS are Lieutenant Commander Beatrice V. Ball (right) and Lieutenant Muriel W. Dubuc (centre). Senator Smith sponsored the original bill for the organisation of the SPARS. (Photo by US Coast Guard/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)




