Countywide : Commission Honors Wieder, 3 Others

County Supervisor Harriett M. Wieder and three others have been honored by the Commission on the Status of Women as outstanding women in Orange County.

Also honored were Shirley M. Metz of Capistrano Beach, Adleane Hunter of Santa Ana and Lucia Belle Isaacson of Capistrano Beach.

Metz made an overland journey on skis to the South Pole to point out the ecological danger facing the Earth and the pole. Hunter is the founder of the Orange County Black Actors Theater. Isaacson, 96, was an Army nurse in World War I who received a Purple Heart after being wounded while treating soldiers.

Isaacson was honored at her home while the others were presented their awards Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors meeting. The commission noted that Wieder was the first woman to be elected to the Board of Supervisors in its 100-year history.

“I am very honored to receive such a distinguished award, and I am happy to receive recognition for being the only woman who has served on the board,” she said. “But I really hope that I will certainly not be the last.”

It was the first time that the commission has made the awards.