She was a delegate to the White House Conference on Education in 1955 , and chairwoman of the Nebraska delegation to the 1956 Republican National Convention . From 1955 to 1959 she was a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission , and in 1957 she was named " American Mother of the Year " . She also served as the president and founder of the Nebraska Federation of Republican Women , and was on the board of trustees at Doane College and Nebraska Wesleyan College . She tried unsuccessfully to win the Republican nomination for Governor of Nebraska in 1960
1956 Republican National Convention
1956 Republican National Convention
Hazel Abel