Naomi D. Rothwell

Naomi Doniger graduated in 1939 from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in agriculture,{{r|wapo|cdsun}} married George James Rothwell, and soon afterwards began working for the federal government in the State Department, Army, and Department of Agriculture.{{r|wapo}}

In 1946 she was working in Moscow for the United States Foreign Service.{{r|fsj}}

She became a board member of Woodley House, a halfway house in Washington, DC, founded by her sister Joan Doniger. She and her sister recorded their experiences in their book.{{r|wapo}}

By 1960, she was working at the Census Bureau, where she "had a major role in the enumerator training program" for the 1960 census.{{r|ch60}}

She worked at the bureau for 31 years before retiring.{{r|wapo}} She also served as secretary-treasurer of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.{{r|aapor}}

She was a recipient of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal.{{r|wapo}}

In 1981 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{r|fasa}}

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{{citation|title=American Association for Public Opinion Research Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference|journal=The Public Opinion Quarterly|volume=43|issue=3|date=Autumn 1979|pages=419–434|jstor=2748239|doi=10.1086/268536}}

{{citation|url=http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19390616-01.1.8&e=--------20--1-----all----#|newspaper=Cornell Daily Sun|title=The Graduates of the Class of 1939|date=16 June 1939|page=8}}

{{citation|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/12595659v2p1.pdf|author=U.S. Bureau of the Census|title=U.S. Census of Housing: 1960, Vol. II, Metropolitan Housing, Part 1, United States and Divisions|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1963|contribution=Acknowledgements|page=iii}}

{{citation|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=17 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042456/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}}

{{citation|url=http://www.afsa.org/sites/default/files/fsj-1946-01-january_0.pdf|journal=The American Foreign Service Journal|volume=23|issue=1|date=January 1946|page=67|title=Visitors}}

{{citation|title=Proceedings of the Annual Research Conference, Volume 4|year=1988|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1988|first=John G.|last=Keane|pages=9–13|contribution=Counting the hard-to-enumerate population}}

See in particular [https://books.google.com/books?id=fMa4i8nS_YoC&pg=PA12 p. 12].

Reviews of The Psychiatric Halfway House:

• {{citation

| last = Martin | first = Eugene V.

| date = June 1967

| doi = 10.2307/3420678

| issue = 6

| journal = The American Journal of Nursing

| pages = 1301–1302

| title = none

| volume = 67| jstor = 3420678

}}

• {{citation

| last = Edwards | first = Griffith

| date = December 1967

| doi = 10.1176/ps.18.12.382

| issue = 12

| journal = Psychiatric Services

| pages = 382

| title = none

| volume = 18}}

{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/07/15/obituaries/49afe6e0-194c-4601-ae81-b70b01a83b74/|title=Naomi D. 'Donny' Rothwell, Census Official|department=Obituaries|date=15 July 2000|newspaper=The Washington Post}}

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