By then she had met Gus Crenson in Presbyterian Sunday school. When the New York newspapers wouldn't hire her, she started her own: the Eastchester Commentator. Pasche earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at Hunter College in New York. “Her whirlwind perpetual-motion style of operating the office earned her the title of the world's first solid-state, transistorized press officer,” he wrote.īorn in the Bronx to Albert Pasche, a safety officer for the New York subway, and Violet Pasche, a homemaker, Charlotte E. Lou Panos, a longtime political reporter and friend, remarked on her seemingly bionic energy as she left. One year later, in April 1973, she left to become senior director of consumer affairs at Blue Cross headquarters in Washington. I can't stay unhappy for more than five minutes,” she told The Sun in April 1972, after earning a federal award for distinguished service. I didn't eat my heart and guts out over it. “If I've met with discrimination, it came at a time when women were conditioned to expect it. Her 29 years in the agency began as a stenographer, and her rise coincided with women's liberation - a movement she embraced as “the 2-by-4 that women have used to get attention,” she once said.

She once described herself to The Baltimore Sun as “5 feet, 3 1/4 inches, 105 fighting pounds.” Crenson was a Bronx-tough petite with a pixie haircut. The 98-year-old spent her career challenging social constraints that hindered women in the workplace.Īs the administration's chief press officer in the 1970s, Mrs. Charlotte Crenson, one of the highest-ranking women in the Social Security Administration in her day, died of pneumonia Dec.

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