 For many years she was the personal secretary to Mrs. David Levy, whose father was one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Company.In 1941 she married Edmund S. Whitman, an official of the United Fruit Company.In 1952, while working as a secretary in the New York office of the Crusade for Freedom, Mrs. Whitman was recruited by Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential campaign staff.