In 1960, Edna McKinnon, an attorney, a widow, and an "older woman" joined Pathfinder. In the 1930s, Edna had been opening clinics throughout the South as field representative for Margaret Sanger's Research Bureau and had worked for Clarence when he was field director of that organization. Edna became a Gamble fieldworker in Malaya, Indonesia, and, briefly, with great difficulty, in Saudi Arabia. Margaret Roots, Edith Gates, and Edna McKinnon were long-term fieldworkers for Pathfinder. They loved their work and were deeply loyal to Clarence. As Edna McKinnon later explained,