 In 1960, she authored and edited the "Ohio Senior Citizens" and the following year served as Ohio's delegate to the White House Conference on Aging.By 1962, she was serving as the State Secretary of Ohio's Commission on Aging and organizing volunteers to make nursing home visits to elder citizens.She organized the first five Governor's Conferences on Aging and coordinated Golden Age Villages, in Columbus and Toledo, facilitating the planning, construction and services as a consultant to the Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction.