DOCSLIB.ORG

Download PDF 9.45 MB

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Download PDF 9.45 MB A l^-pound Freshman Orientation Kit and the first letter from home Welcome to Cam p Sw arthm ore “My biggest piece of advice is to have fun this week and make the most of this tremendous opportunity before classes start.” This advice from Sophomore Bob Kuske was the first of many pieces of friendly advice Katherine Harper ’77 was to hear on her first day at Swarthmore. Kathie’s first day as a freshman began shortly after midnight when she boarded the plane to Philadelphia from her hometown of Tempe, Arizona. It was more than 24 hours later before Kathie got to bed in her new home in Wharton. In those 24-plus hours Kathie began the four-day process of getting oriented to her new life. A 77-man freshman orientation committee, composed mostly of sophomores, 1 had been working since last spring to plan activities that would give Kathie and her 342 classmates (the largest freshman class in | the College’s history) a helpful introduction | to the campus and to each other. They met them at the airport and train I station and manned the registration tables ini Parrish, where freshmen picked up a packet I literature they had assembled and their room key. They directed freshmen to their dormitories and helped them with luggage. They gave a tea for freshmen and their parents so they would have a chance to meet President Friend, also beginning his freshm year. Later President Friend addressed the freshman class in the Meeting House and th freshmen returned to their dorms for hall meetings with the upperclass resident assistants. The day ended with roving dorm parties which finally converged on Commonsj at 11 P.M. for beer and dancing and conversation. The next days were even fuller: advanced1 placement tests in languages, English literature, chemistry and biology; a swimmi test, conferences with faculty advisers, meetings with the deans, a game of Capture the Flag played with 300 squirt guns, a barbecue with faculty, a bonfire in the Cruffij' a square dance, a late night swim. Camp Swarthmore, as people have dubbed Fresh Orientation, was in full swing and the Class ’77 was prepped for the first day of classes. I On her first day, Kathie found her mailbox, unpacked, made friends, and looked up Admissions Officer Barbara Pearson Lange ’31, who was instrumental m setting up the new Rocky Mountain Scholarship which Kathie won. Photographs by James Purring Camp Swarthmore Kathie listens attentively to President Friend, whom she’d met at the Freshman tea, address the Class of ’77 in the Meeting House. On Sharpies patio she and roommates sort out the day’s advice, including “Down East Smoggy Air and Dirty Crum Creek Blues a pseudo­ subversive alternative to your freshman orientation handbook, published by The Committee to make Togetherness Omnipresent (CoTomato). 2 SWARTHMORE ALUMNl*r0BER Kathie and two of her three roommates hear Residen Assistant Cabot Christianson ’75 tell freshmen in his coed section of Wharton to lock their doors, be careful with candles, don’t put their beds on the floor, be sensitive to those around them, and to knock on his door any time with any problems. At freshmar dorm party, Kathie has fun and forgets her worry that she “ won’t be able to cut the academics.” H | glfil WbSLjl. ' * JH ; -H sssi 1 M l ft -m The Swarthmore College Bulletin, of which this publication is Volume LXXI, No. 2, is published in September, October, March, May, July, and twice in December and January by Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 ¡Qjlff’OBER, 1973 For Louis Lupin ’77, a McCabe Delmarva Scholar from Claymont, Delaware, Freshman Orientation was different. Lou arrived on Camp Swarthmore campus the day after Labor Day to play football. By the time his classmates arrived, Football players have Lou said, “I more or less felt I was already their own special orientation oriented.” The only event he went to the first day of orientation was the Parrish party and only then because another football player dragged him. He went home early. There was little time for Lou, an enthusiastic jazz musician, to keep up with his routine of daily bass practice and his lessons had to be postponed until classes started. “I was too tired. Pre-season practice was pretty tough in terms of conditioning and the double sessions were exhausting, even though I had been in good shape from lifting weights all summer and running two miles a day since August 1.” Coach Millard Robinson conducted his own form of orientation over the summer with all his players, writing to the men and getting in touch with many returning lettermen personally. “I really liked all the football mailings,” says Lou. “It was cheering to know he cared that much.” Ü, m WÊÊ K ? f êÊBm 1 1 I* I â After a full day sharpening his skills as defensive linebacker, Lou Lupin relaxes with another football player and classmate, Mike Ehrhardt. SWARTHMORE ALUMNI W CTa S How an “I” battled a faceless “they” to rid the Potomac of the CIA’s unique form of industrial waste BY JOHN SEABURY THOMSON ’43 I canoe to work. experiences of life in Washington: the lation explosion and big government Each morning, except when the Sycamore Island Canoe Club, the have overtaken the area, and Pulp Potomac is ice-bound or in flood, Canoe Cruisers Association, and all Run’s drainage basin has been vastly either alone or with one or two friends, the pleasures of white water canoeing. changed, although the Potomac Pali­ I park my car on MacArthur Boule­ It also provided the foundation for the sades through which it cuts remain vard, hike across two footbridges and Top Secret Slurry Caper. largely untouched. It is second-growth down a zig-zag path to the river bank, “Pulp Run” is a small year-round woodland: sycamore, hickory, persim­ take the rope-drawn ferry to Sycamore streamlet, unnamed on local maps, mon and pawpaw, together with the Island, launch my canoe on the quiet which winds through the northern Vir­ fallen hulks of old chestnut scattered aters of the Potomac and paddle ginia countryside and across the old along its slopes. The Leiter mansion cross to the Virginia shore. Once Leiter estate to enter the Potomac is gone, destroyed by fire, and the [there, I chain the canoe to a tree, hide River between Turkey Run and Little George Washington Memorial Park­ he paddles, and hike up through the Falls Rapids. The ruin of an old sum­ way runs along the crest of the pali­ SjSwoods, along the George Washington mer cottage—a fine old stone chimney sade, bridging Pulp Run with a cul­ '^■Memorial Parkway and into the north —stands on its western shore and the vert. Back farther from the river, the I jgate of the Central Intelligence now-abandoned National Capital Park massive Central Intelligence Agency l Agency’s grounds. In the evening I re- Trails #1 and # 2 cross its mouth. In headquarters building sits firmly J^erse the pattern. the 1930’s the water from this stream, astride the Pulp Run valley and, once All year around, canoeing is far and the spring at its source, was so again, Pulp Run follows its natural Superior to all other means of com­ pure that Sycamore Islanders used to course some thirty to fifty feet below uting—there are no problems of paddle or row across the river to bring the new ground level. As has always kidding in the snow storms and in back with them jugs full for their been the case, Pulp Run carries the [times of high water we merely use the drinking water. runoff from the rains and serves as the eddies and backwaters behind Ruperts Modernization, progress, the popu­ local storm sewer. The reshaping of sland to make our way up the land contours and the tream before heading out and large-scale paving operations errying across the flood to the which accompanied the build­ irginia shore. We often won- ing process sharply changed the er what the traffic helicopters run-off patterns, bringing heav­ bverhead think of us—but find ier water flows after each storm the wildlife, birds and flowers and increased erosion but, by- far more interesting and attrac­ and-large, the visual quality of tive. Unpredicted windstorms the water was remarkably un­ —and high waves on the Po­ changed. It remained cool, fresh tomac—have given us pause, and transparent—a lovely nat­ 3ut nothing can undercut the ural stream of water. satisfaction the canoe pool has Apparent catastrophe struck provided. Pulp Rim in the 1960’s, when, Canoeing to work has opened in a move which reduced air ^P the way to some of the best pollution and allowed for the I igpCTOBER, 1973 5 “I canoe to work. Each morning with one or two friends, I park my car on MacArthur Boulevard, hike across two footbridges and down a zig-zag path to the river bank, take the rope-drawn ferry to Sycamore Island, launch my canoe on the quiet waters of the Potomac, and paddle across to the Virginia shore. Once there, I chain the canoe to a tree, hide the paddles, and hike up through the woods, along the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and into the north gate of the Central Intelligence Agency’s grounds. In the evening I reverse the pattern.” Photographs by Walter Behr. 6 ¡recycling of paper products, the CIA however, was struggling with the pro­ regained the degree of patience needed. switched from burning its classified cedural problems of a large organiza­ Patience was rewarded.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Ira Sprague Bowen Papers, 1940-1973
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2p300278 No online items Inventory of the Ira Sprague Bowen Papers, 1940-1973 Processed by Ronald S. Brashear; machine-readable finding aid created by Gabriela A. Montoya Manuscripts Department The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2203 Fax: (626) 449-5720 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554 © 1998 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection Inventory of the Ira Sprague 1 Bowen Papers, 1940-1973 Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection Inventory of the Ira Sprague Bowen Paper, 1940-1973 The Huntington Library San Marino, California Contact Information Manuscripts Department The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2203 Fax: (626) 449-5720 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=554 Processed by: Ronald S. Brashear Encoded by: Gabriela A. Montoya © 1998 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Ira Sprague Bowen Papers, Date (inclusive): 1940-1973 Creator: Bowen, Ira Sprague Extent: Approximately 29,000 pieces in 88 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library San Marino, California 91108 Language: English. Provenance Placed on permanent deposit in the Huntington Library by the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection. This was done in 1989 as part of a letter of agreement (dated November 5, 1987) between the Huntington and the Carnegie Observatories. The papers have yet to be officially accessioned. Cataloging of the papers was completed in 1989 prior to their transfer to the Huntington.
    [Show full text]
  • Marcel Minnaert, Astrofysicus 1893-1970
    Marcel Minnaert, astrofysicus 1893-1970 De rok van het universum Leo Molenaar bron Leo Molenaar, Marcel Minnaert, astrofysicus 1893-1970. De rok van het universum. Balans, Amsterdam / Van Halewyck, Leuven 2003 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/mole016marc01_01/colofon.htm © 2007 dbnl / Leo Molenaar 4 In deze tijd heeft wat men altijd noemde Schoonheid, schoonheid haar gezicht verbrand Zij troost niet meer de mensen Zij troost de larven de reptielen de ratten Maar de mens verschrikt zij En treft hem met het besef Een broodkruimel te zijn op de rok van het universum (Uit Lucebert, ik tracht op poëtische wijze, Verzamelde gedichten, Amsterdam 2002, pag. 52) Leo Molenaar, Marcel Minnaert, astrofysicus 1893-1970 7 Proloog Marcel Minnaert (1893-1970): Erflater van de Groot-Nederlandse beschaving Er zijn heel wat mensen voor wie de naam van Minnaert nog een dierbare klank heeft. Dat geldt in ieder geval voor leraren in de natuurwetenschap die houden van waarnemingen in de vrije natuur. Mijn eerste kennismaking met hem had dan ook plaats via de Minnaert: zo heten de drie delen van De Natuurkunde van 't Vrije Veld die ik omstreeks 1970 heb aangeschaft. De eerste druk van dit boek verscheen eind jaren dertig. In de jaren negentig kwamen van het eerste deel van Minnaerts trilogie, Licht en kleur in het landschap, nieuw geïllustreerde uitgaven in het Engels en Duits op de markt naast de herdruk van de Minnaert in het Nederlands. Het is dan ook een uniek boek. Minnaert had vijfentwintig jaar lang natuurverschijnselen geobserveerd, daar aantekeningen van gemaakt en onderzoek gedaan naar de fysische verklaringen.
    [Show full text]
  • Women in Astronomy: an Introductory Resource Guide
    Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide by Andrew Fraknoi (Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco) [April 2019] © copyright 2019 by Andrew Fraknoi. All rights reserved. For permission to use, or to suggest additional materials, please contact the author at e-mail: fraknoi {at} fhda {dot} edu This guide to non-technical English-language materials is not meant to be a comprehensive or scholarly introduction to the complex topic of the role of women in astronomy. It is simply a resource for educators and students who wish to begin exploring the challenges and triumphs of women of the past and present. It’s also an opportunity to get to know the lives and work of some of the key women who have overcome prejudice and exclusion to make significant contributions to our field. We only include a representative selection of living women astronomers about whom non-technical material at the level of beginning astronomy students is easily available. Lack of inclusion in this introductory list is not meant to suggest any less importance. We also don’t include Wikipedia articles, although those are sometimes a good place for students to begin. Suggestions for additional non-technical listings are most welcome. Vera Rubin Annie Cannon & Henrietta Leavitt Maria Mitchell Cecilia Payne ______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: 1. Written Resources on the History of Women in Astronomy 2. Written Resources on Issues Women Face 3. Web Resources on the History of Women in Astronomy 4. Web Resources on Issues Women Face 5. Material on Some Specific Women Astronomers of the Past: Annie Cannon Margaret Huggins Nancy Roman Agnes Clerke Henrietta Leavitt Vera Rubin Williamina Fleming Antonia Maury Charlotte Moore Sitterly Caroline Herschel Maria Mitchell Mary Somerville Dorrit Hoffleit Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Beatrice Tinsley Helen Sawyer Hogg Dorothea Klumpke Roberts 6.
    [Show full text]
  • Jwarthmore Intercollegiate Athletics 1972 a Different Hall Game?
    Jwarthmore Intercollegiate Athletics 1972 A different hall game? Swarthmore Intercollegiate Athletics'72 A//) 'f<3 "fa //9 ^ Is it winning or how you play the game that counts? “The Cultural Revolution has penetrated the last stronghold of the American myth— the locker room. Young athletes, having scaled new levels of consciousness, now challenge a long-standing article of faith— the belief that competition has intrinsic value. They enter sports in search of particular esthetic experience, essentially personal in nature. They no longer accept the authoritarian structure of sports, nor do they accept the supreme emphasis on winning.” —Bruce C. Ogilvie and Thomas A. Tutko, Psychology Today, October, 1971 No one uses the word “ revolution” to describe intercollegiate athletics at Swarthmore today. But everybody— coaches, athletes, interested faculty and administrators— agrees they are different. “Our locker room became revolutionary a long time ago,” says Professor Thomas Blackburn, familiar with Swarthmore athletics for some ten years. “What is most different 1 Swarthmore Intercollegiate Athletics ’72 today,” he says, “ is that you find few people who are 4 Today's Athletes Tell Why willing to sit out a couple of years on the second team. They Play the Game People who don’t play tend to quit.” 13 The Coaches Speak Out The change may not be sudden, radical, or complete— 17 Women's Liberation in the Locker Room adjectives Webster allies with revolution—but it is 21 Women’s Coaches Say Philosophies Differ noticeable and at times uncomfortable for all involved. 24 The College It is most evident in the team sports, where the popular 28 Class Notes do-your-own-thing philosophy clashes with the necessity for cooperation and discipline.
    [Show full text]
  • Iirfnuijl111'1111 II I
    rfNUiJl111'1111 I I II IUf I ARCS & SPARKS - June 1969 Issue page contents: 2 ROY J. CELLICH- Ultra Carbon Representative 3 1969 SAS PRESIDENT, DR. C. L. GRANT 3 CHICAGO SAS - Past Officers' Night 4 DR. CHARLonE MOORE SlnERL Y - Dedication 6 20TH PlnSBURGH CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS 7 COBLENTZ SOCIETY AWARD 8 PITTSBURGH SPECTROSCOPY AWARD-TO DR. FASSEL 8 A SUMMARY OF THE AWARD ADDRESS BY DR. FASSEL 10 WILLIAM F. MEGGERS AWARD 11 1969 SUMMER COURSES photo stories 12. PlnSBURGH CONFERENCE PHOTOS 13 EASTERN ANALYTICAL SYMPOSIUM 10TH ANNIVERSARY PHOTOS 14 22ND ANNUAL LSU INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM PHOTOS 15 looking ahead COVER PHOTO: SPIRAL NEBULA ANDROMEDA II Arcs & Sparks is published by Ultra Carbon Corporation, P.O. Box 747, Bay City, Michigan 48706, for' , the. advancement of the profession of spectroscopy. News stories, changes of address and other pertinent correspondence should berdirected to the Editor. ROY J. CELLICH Ultra Carbon Representative If you are located in Virginia or the Western half of Pennsyl- vania, this is your man. Roy joined Ultra last winter. Many of you met him at the Pittsburgh Conference. Roy was born in Pitts- burgh, March 9, 1927. He attended grade and high school in Trafford, Pennsylvania. Receiving a BS degree In Chemistry from Slippery Rock State College, he went on to take graduate chemistry courses at the University of Pittsburgh, Western Re- serve University and special advanced chemistry courses at American University, Washington, D.C. Roy makes his head- quarters at Murrysville, Pa., with his wife, a former teacher, and two sons. Outdoor enthusiasts, the Cellichs spend their week- ends swimming, hiking and skiing at the Seven Springs resort area where they have a cottage.
    [Show full text]
  • Carnegie Institution Carnegie
    C68099_CVR.qxd:CVR 3/29/11 7:58 Page 1 2009-2010 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR 2009-2010 SCIENCE YEAR BOOK 1530 P Street, N.W. Washington DC 20005 Phone: 202.387.6400 Carnegie Institution Fax: 202.387.8092 www.CarnegieScience.edu FOR SCIENCE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE INSTITUTION FOR CARNEGIE YEAR BOOK The paper used in the manufacturing this year book contains 30% post-consumer recycled fiber. By using recycled fiber in place of virgin fiber, the Carnegie Institution preserved 41 trees, saved 126 pounds of waterborne waste, saved 18,504 gallons of water and prevented 4031 pounds of greenhouse gasses. The energy used to print the report was produced by wind power. Designed by Tina Taylor, T2 Design Printed by Monroe Litho ISSN 0069-066X C68099_CVR.qxd:CVR 3/29/11 7:58 Page 2 Department of Embryology 3520 San Martin Dr. / Baltimore, MD 21218 410.246.3001 Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Rd., N.W. / Washington, DC 20015-1305 202.478.8900 Department of Global Ecology 260 Panama St. / Stanford, CA 94305-4101 650.462.1047 The Carnegie Observatories 813 Santa Barbara St. / Pasadena, CA 91101-1292 626.577.1122 Las Campanas Observatory Casilla 601 / La Serena, Chile Department of Plant Biology 260 Panama St. / Stanford, CA 94305-4101 650.325.1521 Department of Terrestrial Magnetism 5241 Broad Branch Rd., N.W. / Washington, DC 20015-1305 202.478.8820 Office of Administration 1530 P St., N.W. / Washington, DC 20005-1910 202.387.6400 www.CarnegieScience.edu 2 009-2010 YEAR BOOK The President’s Report July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE Former Presidents Former Trustees Daniel C.
    [Show full text]
  • American Women's Suffrage Movement
    RESOURCE GUIDE: AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT On July 18, 1848, women and men gathered to launch the women’s suffrage movement in the United States at the Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York. This struggle would last seven decades, with women gaining the right to vote in 1920. The women’s suffrage movement, also called woman suffrage, gave women the opportunity to express themselves to the general public, which had rarely been done prior. Not all women supported women’s suffrage. Women who opposed suffrage believed that it would take them away from their families and homes, and that women would be tainted by “dirty” politics. In 1909, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia formed to campaign for women to gain the right to vote in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Founding members included Lila Meade Valentine, who would be elected as the organization’s leader; artists Adele Clarke and Nora Houston; writers Ellen Glasgow and Mary Johnston; and physician Kate Waller Barrett. These women traveled throughout Virginia handing out literature, giving speeches, hosting suffrage teas, and lobbying men and General Assembly members to grant women the right to vote. Following the formation of the Equal Suffrage League, its members decided to become a part of the national suffrage movement by joining the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and National American Woman Suffrage Association members supported the fight for women’s suffrage on a state level, while other suffrage organizations supported a constitutional amendment. While the National American Woman Suffrage Association and its affiliated groups were making progress in their individual states, some suffragists became frustrated by the slow pace of the movement.
    [Show full text]
  • Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records: Selected Timeline
    Equal Suffrage League of Virginia Records: Selected Timeline ESL BRIEF TIMELINE Nov. 1909 Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL) organized 1910 ESL members began circulating a petition to present to the 1912 session of the General Assembly (“to propose and submit to the qualified voters for ratification an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia, whereby women shall have the right of suffrage….”) Dec. 1910 ESL state convention held in Richmond Dec. 1911 ESL state convention held in Richmond Jan.–Feb. 1912 ESL members spoke to General Assembly committees in favor of woman suffrage, but House of Delegates defeats a proposed amendment by a vote of 85 to 12 Feb. 1912 Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (VAOWS) organized Oct. 1912 ESL state convention held in Norfolk 1912–1915 ESL officers, especially president Lila Meade Valentine, vice president Elizabeth D. Lewis, and novelist Mary Johnston, speak in localities around the state and help organize local leagues Mar. 1913 ESL members and more than 100 Virginians participate in the national suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Oct. 1913 ESL state convention held in Lynchburg Feb. 1914 ESL members speak to General Assembly committees, but House of Delegates rejects a suffrage resolution by vote of 74 to 13 May 1914 ESL Suffrage Day demonstration held at Capitol Square Oct.–Dec. 1914 ESL publishes Virginia Suffrage News Nov. 1914 ESL state convention held in Roanoke May 1915 ESL Suffrage Day celebration at Capitol Square June 1915 Virginia branch of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage organized (later becomes the National Woman’s Party) Dec. 1915 ESL state convention held in Richmond; also participates in meeting of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference Jan.–Feb.
    [Show full text]
  • Download PDF 12.54 MB
    PHOTOS BY ALAN DIXON ’83 in Chester A new generation of Swarthmore student activists is determined to help rehabilitate one of the poorest cities in the nation. “Sometimes I get very upset,” says Salem Chester Tutorial, an adjunct to Upward here.’ It was a gray day and, believe me, Shuchman ’84. “I see a lot of students who Bound, encourages Swarthmore students to Chester looks horrible on a gray day. But are concerned about the war in El Salvador spend one night a week tutoring students in after a lot of discussion, we decided to move and the deployment of missiles in Europe, Chester on a variety of subjects. in. and some other very important issues— But “With my family background, I have a lot “The biggest thing I had to overcome in I wonder how some of them can be so con­ of opportunities and I think most students living there was that I always knew in the cerned about problems that are 3,000 or here do or they wouldn’t be here. But for back of my mind that I could leave—that I 4,000 miles away, when they don’t even most of the kids in Chester that opportunity could just walk out that door and come back want to look at the social problems just is never going to be there,” Shuchman points to campus to live__ But Chester was good 3x/i miles away in Chester (Pa.).” out. “A kid growing up with his mom on for me because it gave me a chance to test Shuchman’s conviction that Swarthmore welfare just doesn’t have much hope of ever my skills.
    [Show full text]
  • Women in Astronomy: an Introductory Resource Guide to Materials in English
    Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide to Materials in English by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & Astronomical Society of the Pacific) © copyright 2008 by Andrew Fraknoi. All rights reserved. For permission to use, or to suggest additional materials, please contact the author at e-mail: fraknoiandrew {at} fhda.edu Table of Contents: 1. Written Resources on the General Topic of Women in Astronomy 2. Web Resources on the General Topic of Women in Astronomy 3. Material on Some Specific Women Astronomers of the Past: Annie Cannon Agnes Clerke Williamina Fleming Caroline Herschel Dorrit Hoffleit Helen Sawyer Hogg Margaret Huggins Henrietta Leavitt Antonia Maury Maria Mitchell Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Charlotte Moore Sitterly Mary Somerville Beatrice Tinsley 4. Material on Some Specific Living Astronomers who are Women: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Margaret Burbidge Sandra Faber Debra Fischer Wendy Freedman Margaret Geller Andrea Ghez Heidi Hammel Jane Luu Sally Ride Nancy Roman Vera Rubin Carolyn Shoemaker Ellen Stofan Jill Tarter Virginia Trimble Sidney Wolff 5. Articles and Books about Other Individual Women Astronomers ______________________________________________________________________________ This guide is not meant to be a comprehensive or scholarly introduction to the complex topic of the role of women in astronomy, but simply a resource for those educators and students who wish to explore the challenges and triumphs of women of the past and present. It’s also an opportunity to get to know some of the key women who have overcome prejudice and exclusion to make significant contributions to our field. To be included among the representative women for whom we list individual resources, an astronomer must have had something non-technical about her life and work published in a popular-level journal or book.
    [Show full text]
  • Henry Norris Russell
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES H ENRY NORRIS R USSELL 1877—1957 A Biographical Memoir by HARLO W S HAPLEY Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. Biographical Memoir COPYRIGHT 1958 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON D.C. HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL October 25, i8yy—February 18, BY HARLOW SHAPLEY ENRY NORRIS RUSSELL was born on October 25, 1877, in Oyster H Bay, New York, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His educa- tion was acquired principally at home until the age of twelve, and then at the Princeton Preparatory School and Princeton University; from the latter he was graduated in 1897 with the highest standing ever attained by a Princeton undergraduate. Throughout all of his mature life, as a member of the Princeton faculty, he lived at 79 Alexander Street, but spent many summers on the New England coast or in travel. Russell was awarded in due course all the formal distinctions that America's leading astronomer merited. He was made a foreign as- sociate of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Belgium; Correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences, and Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. His honorary degrees came from Dartmouth, Louvain, Harvard, Chicago, Michoacan (Mexico); his medals and prizes from the Royal Astronomical So- ciety of London, the French Academy (Lalande and Janssen), Na- tional Academy of Sciences (Draper), Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Bruce), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Rum- ford), Franklin Institute (Franklin), and the American Philosophi- cal Society (John L.
    [Show full text]
  • Obituaries Prepared by the Historical Astronomy Division
    1665 Obituaries Prepared by the Historical Astronomy Division DAVID FULMER BENDER, 1913-2004 their orbital elements into computer cards and initiated a David Fulmer Bender died in San Diego, California, on long career of searching for opportunities for spacecraft to 13 September 2004, at the age of 91. His heart stopped sud- flyby or rendezvous with one of these minor planets. He denly while he was dancing. His pioneering work in estab- learned enough Russian to read books important at the time lishing comprehensive, computer-accessible ephemerides of on the subject of asteroid orbits. In 1966 he had enough data to publish a paper on some possible asteroid encounters by asteroids and comets found many applications, including the human missions to Mars. Through conferences of the Ameri- first- ever visit to an asteroid, Gaspra, by an interplanetary can Astronautical Society, Dave became acquainted with spacecraft. Roger Bourke, the group supervisor of the Advanced Dave was born in Reno, Nevada, on 10 February 1913, to Projects Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ͑JPL͒, which Homer Charles Bender and Susan Bowers Bender. The fam- is managed by Caltech for NASA. In 1970, Dave retired ily moved to Spokane, Washington, while Dave was very from Whittier College and began working full time for Roger young. His father was a civil engineer and a graduate of at JPL. MIT, who helped design bridges and dams throughout the JPL was still working on missions to the inner planets and Northwest, including the Grand Coolie Dam. Dave had a was starting to develop missions to the outer planets.
    [Show full text]