1967 Press Photo Stock broker Pamela Gormin views stock board with opera glasses

A new addition to the accredited stock brokers of the city is having trouble being taken seriously---she's too pretty, but poised, petite young Pam Gormin isn't taken aback. She faced the same patent disbelief in New York, where her sponsor Herbie Kohlmeyer, sent her for training. "All nine weeks not one of the brokers believed I was serious,' she said ruefully. "But they felt sorry for me, the helpless Southern female, you know, so they were nice. My biggest trouble was that most of the brokers couldn't understand what I was saying; I had the same trouble outside---But you get used to it. Pamela Gormin of New Orleans makes use of her opera glasses to overcome her nearsightedness to scrutinize a stock report board at her office. The pretty 24-year-old Crescent City native has just become a full-fledged stock broker in what is usually termed a man's world. Care to invest and get a closer look?

Photo is dated 1967.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8.25 inches.