Marie Hilson Katzenbach

[1][2] She attended the Trenton Model School and at 18 went to work at an orphanage, the Union Industrial Home.

[3] She also worked as a librarian at the Trenton Free Library for 10 years, serving as chief of the cataloguing department.

They had two sons: Edward Lawrence Katzenbach, Jr. (February 24, 1919 – April 23, 1974), who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Education and Manpower Resources under John F. Kennedy, and Nicholas Katzenbach (January 17, 1922 – May 8, 2012), United States Attorney General and Under Secretary of State under Lyndon B.

She also pushed for the designation of Rutgers as the State University in 1955, taking particular interest in developing Douglass College for women.

She remained active on the Board until 1964, when, at the age 81, she was seriously injured when her car ran into the education building.