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 r. Bonnie McDonald, a home economist, has become one of the Air Force's best friends in
Wisconsin.
This week, she received a special citation for training the only two women in the country who received Air Force commissions as
dietitians in 1969.
In presenting the framed certificate "for consistent and devoted service in assisting the Air Force Recruiting Service and in
appreciation of conscientious efforts to make the advancement of peace through air power," Major Ronald D. Woods of Milwaukee,
said he had never before given an award to a civilian woman.
"She's probably a first in the state," he declared.
In 1969, Dr. McDonald encouraged two graduating seniors to consider serving with the airman and gaining "the valuable
experiences and opportunities the Air Force has in store for dieticians."
The two who were commissioned second lieutenants were Lynn Kiefer, Wausau, a 1965 graduate of Newman High School, and Yvonne
Stofflet, Auburndale, a 1964 graduate of Auburndale High School.
According to major Wood, they were selected in national competition.
In 1968, Judy Goll, Milwaukee, was one of the only seven women from the country to receive such a commission. Miss Goll, too,
was an advisee of Dr. McDonald.
In her sixth year on the Stevens Point faculty, Dr. McDonald is "up in the air" over the total subject of dietetics. Last year
her laboratory findings at Texas Women's University (for her Ph. D. degree) were the basis for developing exercise cycles used
by the astronauts in their flights to the moon.
She advised a series of isotonic and isometic exercises to curb spaceman's bone loss inactivity within the space capsules.
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