Mary Roebling

Mary Gindhart Herbert Roebling (July 29, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American banker, businesswoman, and philanthropist.

[1] Mary's father Isaac was the president of the Keystone & Eastern Telephone Company, and her mother was a singer and pianist.

She then worked in Philadelphia at an investment house while taking night classes in business administration and merchandising at the University of Pennsylvania.

[5] Over the years Mary was requested to serve in various public service capacities including Citizen's Advisory Committee on Armed Forces Installations, Atlantic Congress for NATO, White House Congress on Refugee Programs, International Chamber of Commerce's 17th Congress, and Citizens Advisory Council to the Committee on the Status of Women.

[2] In a 1965 speech, Mrs. Roebling said: "As a woman who for years has competed in the business world, I would be the first to agree that the American woman has almost unbelievable economic power, but American women, like women of all civilized nations, do not use the influence their economic power gives them.