BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//archive.cryptologicfoundation.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcrea tor 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:3b23318c-9a7f-42c3-a34e-eb4bf7c2b1f8 X-WR-CALDESC:29 May 1885: Birth date of cryptologic pioneer Genevieve Young Hitt. \n\nLearn more about the work done by Colonel Parker Hitt and Genev ieve Young Hitt via the publication\, 'Pioneers of U.S. Military Crypto logy: Colonel Parker Hitt and His Wife\, Genevieve Young Hitt\,' by Betsy Rohaly Smoot via the link at the bottom of this page.\n\nBelow is an e xcerpt from article on Army.mil by Ruth Quinn\, 'An Army Wife 'Doing He r Bit' in World War I\, The Story of Genevieve Young Hitt.' Get link t o the full article at the bottom of the page.\n\n'While it is unknown when Mrs. Hitt developed an interest in cryptology\, she likely studied the di scipline alongside her husband (Col. Parker Hitt)\, and became proficient in using the M138-A sliding strip decoding device that Parker first develo ped in 1914. Genevieve has also been credited with assisting in the prepar ation and compilation of her husband's seminal work\, Manual for the Solut ion of Military Ciphers\, published by the Army in 1916. Obviously\, she h ad a knack for cipher work too.\n\nWhile Genevieve and her husband were st ationed at Fort Sill\, Oklahoma the Army put them both to work analyzing i ntercepted Mexican government messages during the 1916 Punitive Expedition . However\, the reality of being an Army wife surfaced when Captain Hitt w as sent overseas in May 1917 to serve on General Pershing's staff as assis tant to the Chief Signal Officer during World War I. Genevieve moved from Fort Sill to Fort Sam Houston to be near her family. But rather than sitin g around pining for her deployed husband\, Genevieve traveled to Riverbank Laboratories to gain some training in cryptology\, meeting another crypto logy pioneer\, William Friedman. Back home in Texas\, Genevieve began rece iving hand-written notes marked 'For Mrs. Hitt\,' clipped to cipher messag es that had been sent to the Southern Department. Without ceremony or sala ry\, she routinely deciphered them.\n\nIn April 1918\, the Army finally de emed her work worthy of a paycheck. Genevieve was placed in charge of code work for the Southern Department's Intelligence Officer\, Robert L. Barne s\, for the salary of $1\,000 per year. She worked 5 ½ days per week (plus overtime) coding and decoding official Army intelligence correspondence\, maintaining control of the Army codebooks in the department\, and breakin g intercepted coded and enciphered messages. Except for her brief visit to Riverbank\, she was entirely self-taught. Barnes later noted that Genevie ve was 'specially qualified for such work having made a special study ther eof.' Her new job was hardly what she imagined her life would be as a youn g debutante in Texas a few years earlier.' X-WR-RELCALID:fe0496c25594cf694fa6221f59dea8fb X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20251102T020000 RDATE:20261101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:74f8b113-0129-4066-a53b-2d705a638789 DTSTAMP:20260424T044741Z DESCRIPTION:29 May 1885: Birth date of cryptologic pioneer Genevieve Young Hitt. \n\nLearn more about the work done by Colonel Parker Hitt and Genevi eve Young Hitt via the publication\, 'Pioneers of U.S. Military Cryptol ogy: Colonel Parker Hitt and His Wife\, Genevieve Young Hitt\,' by Betsy R ohaly Smoot via the link at the bottom of this page.\n\nBelow is an ex cerpt from article on Army.mil by Ruth Quinn\, 'An Army Wife 'Doing Her Bit' in World War I\, The Story of Genevieve Young Hitt.' Get link to the full article at the bottom of the page.\n\n'While it is unknown when Mrs. Hitt developed an interest in cryptology\, she likely studied the dis cipline alongside her husband (Col. Parker Hitt)\, and became proficient i n using the M138-A sliding strip decoding device that Parker first develop ed in 1914. Genevieve has also been credited with assisting in the prepara tion and compilation of her husband's seminal work\, Manual for the Soluti on of Military Ciphers\, published by the Army in 1916. Obviously\, she ha d a knack for cipher work too.\n\nWhile Genevieve and her husband were sta tioned at Fort Sill\, Oklahoma the Army put them both to work analyzing in tercepted Mexican government messages during the 1916 Punitive Expedition. However\, the reality of being an Army wife surfaced when Captain Hitt wa s sent overseas in May 1917 to serve on General Pershing's staff as assist ant to the Chief Signal Officer during World War I. Genevieve moved from F ort Sill to Fort Sam Houston to be near her family. But rather than siting around pining for her deployed husband\, Genevieve traveled to Riverbank Laboratories to gain some training in cryptology\, meeting another cryptol ogy pioneer\, William Friedman. Back home in Texas\, Genevieve began recei ving hand-written notes marked 'For Mrs. Hitt\,' clipped to cipher message s that had been sent to the Southern Department. Without ceremony or salar y\, she routinely deciphered them.\n\nIn April 1918\, the Army finally dee med her work worthy of a paycheck. Genevieve was placed in charge of code work for the Southern Department's Intelligence Officer\, Robert L. Barnes \, for the salary of $1\,000 per year. She worked 5 ½ days per week (plus overtime) coding and decoding official Army intelligence correspondence\, maintaining control of the Army codebooks in the department\, and breaking intercepted coded and enciphered messages. Except for her brief visit to Riverbank\, she was entirely self-taught. Barnes later noted that Geneviev e was 'specially qualified for such work having made a special study there of.' Her new job was hardly what she imagined her life would be as a young debutante in Texas a few years earlier.' DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250529T060001 LOCATION: SUMMARY:1885: Cryptologic pioneer Genevieve Young Hitt was born. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR