During World War II, she volunteered with the American Women's Voluntary Services and was featured in advertisement campaigns for Woodbury Soap Company.
[1] She was descended from American Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene and from William Cordon, a colonial planter who received a land grant in the Province of Carolina from the Lords Proprietor in 1729.
[2] Cordon was dubbed as New York City's "Number One Glamour Girl" following her selection by Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, in 1941 as a "debutante in residence" for his nightclub.
[2] As a prominent society figure during the war, she trained as a volunteer nurse's aid and was active in voluntary war efforts including the American Women's Voluntary Services, the Child Education Foundation, and modeled in advertisements for the Woodbury Soap Company.
Robert Sutton Saalfield Jr., a graduate of The Hill School and Princeton University and member of the United States Army Air Corps, on March 23, 1942.
In 1952, she served as a bridal attendant at the wedding of her sister, Mary Windley Cordon, and Kenneth Byron Walker at Christ Church United Methodist in New York City.