- New Mexico Humanities Council Chautauqua Speaker, 2006 to current
- President, Los Alamos Historical Society, 2003-2007; Vice President 1999-2003
- Chairman, Los Alamos County Council (e.g. Mayor), 1988; Los Alamos County Council, 1983-1988
- Teacher, Japanese Women’s Academy, Japan 1958-1960
- M.A. – International Communications, University of New Mexico, 1998
- B.A. – History, Smith College, 1958
- Global Directory Who’s Who, 2005 to current, VIP Listing, 2008-2010
- Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2003 to current
- New Mexico Governor’s Award for Outstanding Woman, 1999
- Who’s Who of Women Executives, 1989-1990
- New Mexico Outstanding Young Woman, 1972
BIOGRAPHY
Nancy R. Bartlit is co-author of Silent Voices of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun, written with the late Professor Everett M. Rogers, Communications professor at the University of New Mexico.
Bartlit is a recent past President of the Los Alamos Historical Society. She is a historian, politician, environmental and health activist, amateur photographer, and long-time community leader of Los Alamos, New Mexico where she has lived with her husband John for 48 years and where her children John and Jennifer were born. In 1969, Nancy, her husband John, and others co-founded New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air & Water, Inc., which led the fight to clean up air emissions of huge coal-burning power plants in the Four Corners region and copper smelters in the southwestern part of the state. Their continued efforts help to preserve the turquoise skies of New Mexico.
Beginning in the 1970s, she served for 12 years on the national American Lung Association Board and served for many years on the state board and as its President. In the 1980s Bartlit was elected to the city/county council for six years, including serving as its Chairman (mayor) for one year and presiding over the NM Association of Counties.
After earning her B.A. in history from Smith College thirteen years after the end of WWII, Bartlit taught for two years at a private girls academy in Sendai, Japan. During school breaks, she toured the four main islands of Japan, visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki museums for the first time. On one break in Kyoto she assisted history Professor and MIS translator Otis Carey of Doshisha/Amherst Universities.
On her return to the States, she completed global travel by taking the time to stop off in 17 countries. She later toured parts of Europe, including Bastogne, Belgium near the Battle of the Bulge, the gravesite of Winston Churchill, London¹s Parliament, and the Tower. Recently, she visited the WWII sites in the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Guam, Saipan, and Tinian Islands.
Bartlit¹s unique understanding of the Japanese people led to further exploration of cross-cultural perspectives. She returned to Japan four times while her husband worked on joint research with Japanese scientists or to research Japanese war/peace museums and monuments. Nancy represents a human link between a country that was once the archenemy and the place that created the weapons that made possible its surrender.
