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Negro Women To Be Headed By Mrs. Mason
The Virginia Pilot, 21 November, 1953

Mrs. V. C. Mason former president of the Norfolk Council of the National Council of Negro Women, was elected president of the national organization last week in Washington .

A founder of the Women's Council for Interracial Cooperation, a group which deals with Norfolk community problems on the interracial level, Mrs. Mason has been a professional social worker for some 25 years. She founded the New York Council of Negro Women and was president of that group for four years before coming to Norfolk , where she has served as council president for the last four years.

Fighting against segregation of common carriers in the State of Virginia , Mrs. Mason has appeared before the City Council numerous times. She was editor of the Golden Jubilee Year Book, a historical record of the Daughters of Elks and has written special articles foe New York and Norfolk newspapers.

A native of Wilkes-Barre , PA. , she attended grammar and high school in Auburn , New York . She was graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.B. degree in political economy and social welfare.

She has done graduate work in psychiatry at Fordham University and in public administration at New York University .

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Child and Family Service and a member of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services, the Evaluatory Committee on Education of the Booker T. Washington High School, the Norfolk Chapter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Young Women's Christian Association, and the Daughters of Elks.

The wife of W.T. Mason, superintendent of the Norfolk Community Hospital and President of W.T. Mason and Company, real estate, insurance, and brokerage firm, she has one son, William T. Mason, Jr., a practicing lawyer in Norfolk .

She and her husband live on the Virginia Beach Boulevard.