THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Alice Tetelman
“I Hope the Next Generation Will Continue to Hold Up the Banner in Whatever Way They Can.”
Expert in policy development and analysis at the federal and state levels, and congressional relations. Executive Director of the Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors. National Women’s Political Caucus, Republican Women’s Task Force. Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality. House Select Committee on Hunger. Chief federal lobbyist for the State of New Jersey and the City of New York.
Interviewed by Judith Waxman, February 2021
Photo. Alice standing to the left of Presidential contender Ronald Reagan. Seated next to former CA governor, with back to camera, is Mary Louise Smith, onetime national GOP chairman. Sen. Nancy Kassenbaum of KS is at right. At the opposite end of the table are US Rep. Margaret Heckler of MA (left) and Helen Milliken [Globe Photo by Tom Landers, July 16, 1980].
More About Alice:
- Immigrant Families and Welfare Reform Seminar Highlights, October 1997
- Select newspaper clippings
- National Women’s Political Caucus Records, 1970-2006; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
- Archives
- 1977 International Women’s Year (IWY) Planks referenced in Alice’s interview
