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Name	Email	Class	Last Update	Post Wellesley School/Work
Class of 2012
Archer, Lucy	send	2012	5/12	Next year I'll be in France on a Fulbright Study/Research Grant, working at the SOLEIL synchrotron facility where I have recorded data with Prof. Stark for his research and my thesis. I'll also be taking a few courses at the Université Paris-Sud, in fluid dynamics and modern optics. I'll be in France for a year, and I hope to go to grad school, probably in physics, after that.
Batista, Annabelle (Astrophysics)	send	2012	5/12	Ph.D program in Geophysics (Earth and Environmental Science) at Columbia University.
Ekeh,Ijeoma	send	2012	5/12	After graduation, I will be in Boston Start-up School, a new program that trains recent graduates for a start up business environment. I'd like to get a job with a start up tech company and work for them for a couple years. At some point, I will go to grad school and get a degree in mechanical engineering (which level of degree I am still not quite sure of). In preparation for that, I'm applying to a post-bacc engineering program and if accepted, I'm deferring my admission for a bit, while I work. I eventually want to start a company that works with accessibility in design and possibly modular, custom prostheses (with an emphasis on affordability).
Lin, Tiffany		2012	5/12
Tien, Deborah (Astrophysics)	send	2012	5/12	Interning at MIT D-Lab this summer while looking for a job.
Zhang, (Lily) Ling	Send	2012	5/12	Working as a Operation Program Manager at Intuit in Waltham, MA
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Class of 2011
Benjamin, Anne	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in physics at Ohio State University.
Byler, Nell (astrophysics)	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Freedman, Willa	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in materials science at Penn State.
Larson, Katharine	send	2011	5/11	Working as a research assistant in astronomy at the University of Utah and applying to astronomy or astrophysics grad school in the fall.
Lee, Catherine	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in physics at Columbia University.
Ngo, (Floria) Phuong (astrophysics)	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in astronomy at Cornell University.
Shonborn, Kim	send	2011	5/11
Shyur, Yomay	send	2011	5/11	Ph.D. program in physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Class of 2010
Carr, Rhiannon	send	2010	3/12	M.S. Biology at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, developing isoprene-producing cyanobacteria for possible industrial applications.
Hadziomerspahic, Amila	send	2010	8/10	Working in Boston, TBD where.
Lee, Jungwoo	send	2010	8/10	Associate Optics Engineer at the Panasonic Boston Laboratory.
Levandowski, Kirsten		2010	10/10	Planning on working for a few years, and thinking about getting an MFA or heading more towards biology.
Lin, Jessica	send	2010	8/10	M.D. program at Boston University School of Medicine.
Youngblood, Allison (astrophysics)	send	2010	8/10	Ph.D. program in astronomy at University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Class of 2009
Dawson, Rebekah (astrophysics)	send	2009	6/09	Ph.D. program in astronomy at Harvard.
Ghimire, Ekta		2009	6/09
Khan, Sahr (chemical physics)	send	2009	6/09	Ph.D. program in chemistry at Yale.
Lam, Rita		2009	6/09
Navarro, Erika	send	2009	6/09	Ph.D. program in atmospheric science at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Raveendran, Sadia		2009	4/12	Worked for Tata Power, the largest private sector power company in India after graduation. Currently enrolled in a Masters program in the Technology & Policy at the Engineering Systems Division Department, MIT.
Skinner, Breanna		2009	6/09
Spedden, Elise	send	2009	6/09	Ph.D. program in physics at Tufts University.
Wang, Ying		2009	5/11	Computer Science graduate school at Stanford.
Zhuang, Bilin	send	2009	5/11	Worked on experimental spintronics at the Data Storage Institute in Singapore for a year. Ph.D. program in chemistry at Cal Tech, starting in Fall 2010.
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Class of 2008
Freeman, Ashley		2008	5/08
Haffner, Darrah	send	2008	09/10	M.H.S. in environmental health sciences from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (2009). Starting M.D. program at the University of Texas Southwestern in 2009.
Kannan, Sunita	send	2008	5/08	Ph.D. program in Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kotz, Sharon (astrophysics)	send	2008	5/08	Masters degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell University.
Maynard, Sarah	send	2008	5/08	I will be working in a staff position at U.C. San Diego and The National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR). http://www.ncmir.ucsd.edu/
Miller, Christina		2008	5/08	Working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Sepersky, Talia (astrophysics)	send	2008	5/08	One year Master's program in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University.
Zangari, Amanda (astrophysics)	send	2008	5/08	Ph.D. program at MIT's Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
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Class of 2007
Coellner, Brie		2007	6/07	Research assistant, Macroeconomics Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Frey, Merideth	send	2007	6/07	Ph.D. program in physics at Yale University.
Hausladen, Heather	send	2007	7/09	Fulbright Fellowship in China (2007-09), on a project concerning social change in Beijing brought about by the dramatic remodeling of the capital city for the 2008 Beijing Olympics; also studied Mandarin during the fall 2007 semester at Qinghua University’s IUP program. Starting in June 2009: Project Analyst at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (East Asia region).
Haciski, Lacey	send	2007	6/07	I'm going to be working in Africa for a month, then going to work for the federal government.
Ivan, Oana	send	2007	6/07	Making it in the world for a while and doing a whole lot of what I want.
Mills-Curran, MaryBeth	send	2007	6/07	Political Science Ph.D. program at MIT.
Moyer, Katherine	send	2007	6/07	I'm going to Cornell for a Masters of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Sibley School as well as an MBA from the Johnson School of Business afterward.
Rivers, Liz	send	2007	6/07	Ph.D. program in physics at UC San Diego.
Sastrawinata, Lalitya		2007	4/08	Market Research Analyst at ATLANTIC-ACM, Boston, MA .
Soule, Rebecca	send	2007	6/07
Springmann, Alessondra (astrophysics)	send	2007	6/07	PhD program in Planetary Sciences at MIT in the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences department, studying the moons of Pluto, asteroids, and other space rocks.
Tse, Susan	send	2007	6/07	I will be going to Tufts University in Fall 2007 to get my Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering.
Wallenstein, Kelly (astrophysics)	send	2007	4/08	Graduate school in engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Watts, Pamela		2007	6/07	Writing children's books.
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Class of 2006
Ali, Mona	send	2006	6/06	PhD program in Applied Physics at Stanford
Buchinsky, Natalie		2006	6/06
Du, Xinxin	send	2006	6/06	PhD program in Physics at Princeton
Hock, Rachel (Astrophysics)	send	2006	7/06	PhD program in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Parameshwar, Devyani	send	2006	6/06	Analyst, Envision Consulting, Unit of IMS Health
Perry, Abigail	send	2006	4/08	Working at NIST in Maryland; Ph.D program in physics at U. Maryland (starting in Fall 2008).
Stoll, Rebecca	send	2006	6/07	PhD program at Ohio State in Astronomy
Willis, Christina	send	2006	4/08	Graduate school in optics, University of Central Florida.
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Class of 2005
Baer, Christina		2005	6/05	Ph.D. program in biophysics at UC Berkeley
Barido, Paulina Ponce de Leon	send	2005	9/06	Technology & Policy Program at MIT
Bedi, Bani	send	2005	10/07	Worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York; MBA at Harvard Business School.
Chacko, Xan	send	2005	10/07	Worked as a Sales/Trading Analyst at BNP Paribas, New York; I am now in London at Imperial College pursuing an MSc in Science, Technology and Society.
Dwyer, Sheila	send	2005	10/07	Ph.D. program in physics at MIT.
Hawley, Wendy (Astrophysics)	send	2005	11/12	Astrophysics Ph.D. program at Arizona State University. Graduating in December 2012, then going to France to work at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille for a 2-3 yeart postdoc with Luc Dessart.
Lee, Hsiao-Lu (Denise) (Physics Minor, Chemistry Major)	send	2005	6/05	Ph.D. program in physical chemistry at Stanford University
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Class of 2004
Abeberese, Ama Baafra	send	2004	9/04	Financial analyst at Lehman Brothers, New York
Graham, Eleanor	send	2004	9/04
Hafer, Virginia	send	2004	9/04	MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA
HsuChen, Vanessa		2004 (MIT '05)	9/04
Huff Kushner, Jennifer	send	2004	4/08	Worked at MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, MA
Jung, Jeenah		2004	9/04
Meyer, Alyssa	send	2004	8/05	Rotational Analyst in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Rice, Melissa	send	2004	4/08	PhD program in Astronomy, Cornell University.
Selimovic, Seila	send	2004	3/10	PhD in physics, Brandeis University (2010). Currently a postdoc fellow at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School working on tissue engineering.
Tiffany, Chelsea		2004	4/08	Graduate program in astronomy, University of Minnesota.
Wilson, Kali	send	2004	11/08	Taught physics at Governor Dummer Academy, MA; starting in Fall 2008, I am working towards my PhD in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in their quantum optics track.
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Class of 2003
D'Arcangelo, Francesca	send	2003	6/03	PhD program in Astronomy, Boston University
Frankel, Marjorie	send	2003	7/05	Masters of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Colorado-Denver
Huang, Yolanda	send	2003	6/03	MD/PhD program at U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hutchison, Karen	send	2003	6/03	I'm teaching at Saint Ann's in Brooklyn: 6th grade and high school physics!
Offner, Stella	send	2003	9/09	PhD in astrophysics, U. C. Berkeley (2009). Three-year NSF post-doc fellowship at the Harvard-Smithsonican Center for Astrophysics, starting in Fall 2009.
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Class of 2002
Dupuy, Allison	send	2002	7/02	PhD program in Biophysics at Yale University
Marshburn, Ann	send	2002	7/02	Research Assistant at NASA Johnson Space Center
Waung, Maggie		2002	7/02	MD/PhD program at U. Texas at Dallas
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Class of 2001
Brown, Christine		2001
Campbell, Gretchen	send	2001	3/08	Currently I'm working on the strontium optical lattice clock and, in particular, I'm building a new apparatus that will be used to create a 3-D optical lattice clock. I received my Ph.D. from MIT. There I worked in Wolfgang Ketterle's and Dave Prichard's lab and studied rubidium Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices.
Curran, Gillian	send	2001	3/08	Instructor in Science Laboratory at the Astronomy Department, Wellesley College.
Odiorne, Kate	send	2001	9/05	33W Intelligence Electronic Warfare Technician in the Army; starting coursework to prepare for a Master's in Aerospace Engineering.
Ong, Su May	send	2001	5/01	Actuarial Associate for the Health and Welfare practice at Towers Perrin,NY. We work on Fortune 1000 client assignments to evaluate health care networks, design programs and assist with implementation. I will also be working towards getting my ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries), then FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) which will (hopefully) be short and painless. I am also hoping to play some club Ultimate.
Scholtz, Nicole	send	2001	6/07	Completed a Master's degree in Information from the University of Michigan, specializing in Library and Information Services. Working at the UM Social Work Library.
Springsteen, Anne	send	2001	4/08	Worked for two years for the Advanced Space System Concept Group at MIT Lincoln Labs; graduate studies in astronomy at Boston University. Currently Assistant Director of Alumnae Technology at Wellesley College.
Ulrich, Elaine	send	2001	8/08	PhD in optical sciences, University of Arizona (2008). 2008-2009 APS Congressional Fellow. http://uanews.org/node/19226
Wellensiek, Tyler	send	2001	3/02	Fixed Income Sales Analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston in New York
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Class of 2000
Aufrecht, Monica	send	2000	9/11	Worked as freelance production assistant for film and video productions in the Boston area. PhD in Philosophy of Science, University of Washington, Seattle (2010). Taught for one year at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. I am now an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Linfield College in Oregon, where I am teaching philosophy of science and environmental ethics.
Bonanos, Alceste	send	2000	9/08	PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 2005. In September 2005, I began a 3 year postdoc, as the Vera Rubin Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. In September 2008, I began working at the Space Telescope Science Institute (in Baltmore, MD) as the Giacconi Fellow.
Ross, Jenny	send	2000	4/08	PhD in Physics, UC Santa Barbara in 2004. Assistant Professor of physics at U. Mass Amherst.
Salter, Demarese	send	2000	9/03	Worked for Sun Microsystems in California for a number of years; currently in Astronomy PhD program at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
Zytkowicz, Andrea	send	2000	9/00	Working in medical physics research group at Harvard Cyclotron Lab, Cambridge
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Class of 1999
Aller, Monique		1999	6/99	Ph.D. program in Astronomy at U. Michigan
Antypas, Katy	send	1999	1/09	M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. Scientific Computing Consultant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory supercomputing center.
Erickson, Ava	send	1999	4/03	Taught high school math at the Bancroft School in Worcester, MA for a year; currently teaching physics, and coaching the novice girls' crew, at Lakeside High SChool in Seattle, WA.
Lee, Janet	send	1999	12/00	Working at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD and taking classes toward Masters in CS at Johns Hopkins
Marler, Joan	send	1999	4/08	Received Ph.D. in Physics (experimental plasma physics) from UC San Diego.
Men, Hui		1999		M. S. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins.
McKinstry, Kerrie	send	1999	3/03	I'm still going to grad school for astronomy at U. Mich. Currently, my days revolve around research and teaching. I'm rather enjoying it all. My research is (roughly) about the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (which is big, in spite of being a "dwarf", and I have _at_least_ a terrabyte of data, which is probably why it's taking me awhile). When I teach, I'm usually teaching lab sessions for the undergrad intro-level astronomy courses, although most recently I've had to teach an entire mini-course by myself. Just be glad you don't run into students at Wellesley who ask things like: "So, did NASA fake the lunar landings?", "What if there're dinosaur eggs on the Moon?", or even "You mean..._the_sun_ counts as a _star_???" (imagine appropriate look of complete astonishment on the student's face). Needless to say, teaching never gets dull! Monique Aller has an office just two doors down the hall from mine. She has also been teaching and doing research...although her research involves finding a mass function of blackholes as a function of host galaxy velocity dispersions. She's currently stressing out because she's going on an observing run to the Magellan telescope at the end of this month. Her email address is: send.
Ricard McCutchan, Libby		1999	01/06	Physics PhD from Yale (2005). Postdoc in experimental nuclear physics at Yale.
Skattum Coyle, Katie	send	1999	01/06	I work for DemandTec, a software company that helps our customers optimize pricing and promotion decisions. I am a Senior Business Analyst working in the Analytical Services group, which leverages the wealth of data to provide additional business insights to our customers.
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Class of 1998
Butler, Kate	send	1998		PhD program in Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Danos, Rebecca	send	1998	06/11	PhD in cosmology, McGill University (2011). Moving to the U. Winnipeg area for a post-doctoral position.
Foley, Jill	send	1998 (UMass)		PhD program in Physics at Princeton
Lippmann Kung, Rebecca	send	1998	09/04	PhD in physics education, University of Maryland (2003). Title of dissertation: "Students' understanding of measurement and uncertainty in the physics laboratory: Social construction, underlying concepts, and quantitative analysis", available at http://www.physics.umd.edu/perg/dissertations/. Now working at Uppsala University, in Sweden, Fysikens didaktik, Fysiska institutionen, with a title of Assistant Professor/Research Associate (forskarassistent in Swedish).
Wollstadt, Laura	send	1998		"For the next year or so, I'll be working as a consultant,doing computer programming and design for NEC."
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Class of 1997
Fusco, Dahlene		1997	4/08	Received MD/PhD from Albert Einstein Medical School.
Lee, Alice	send	1997	12/00	currently a post-bac student at Wellesley completing pre-med requirements
Owley, Jessica	send	1997		AmeriCorps volunteer in Atlanta. Now in graduate program in environmental planning at Berkeley.
Picard Winston, Amy	send	1997	4/12	I am the Department Head for Science and Technology/Engineering at Newton North HS in Newton, MA and continue to teach physics as well. I am involved with numerous MA DESE committees related to science education including the Assessment Development Committee for Introductory Physics (educators who help write the physics MCAS) and Portfolio Training Specialists.
Sewell, Kathy		1997		??
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Class of 1996
Chen, Michelle		1996		Peace Corps in South Africa
Chuang Wong, Ruth	send	1996		Masters of Education from Harvard University, 1997 - Teaching Cert. for high school physics. Currently teaching physics at Brookline High School, Brookline, MA. July, 2000: New address is Ruth Wong, 168 Cedar Street, Wellesley, MA 02481.
Hagemann, Katrin	send	1996	6/01	Studying International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna with the goal of working in science policy.
Jung, Vivian		1996		Fulbright Fellowship; currently in Medical School at Tufts
Kumar, Vidya		1996		PhD program in Math at UCLA
Parent Gotthold, Michelle	send	1996	5/02	Graduate School in Physics/University of Texas, Austin Masters Degree 1998. 1999: Teaching High School calculus in Texas.2000: My husband just finished his PhD, and we've moved to New Jersey for his new job. I'm now teaching physics and AP physics at a science and technology magnet high school in the area.
Susswein, Lisa	send	1996	4/08	Genetic counselor in North Carolina.
Thomas, Kavita	send	1996		Spent '96-'97 workingin the Intelligent Rooms/HAL project in the AI Lab at MIT; currently enrolled in Masters program in Language Technologies (a program that is part of the Computer Science Dept.) at Carnegie-Mellon University
Ware DeWolfe, Alex	send	1995	9/11	Peace Corps in Western Samoa; worked at Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University. Currently working at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. I'm the Science Data Center Manager for the upcoming MAVEN mission to Mars, launching in 2013: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/ and I love my job!
Yamada, Masako	send	1996	4/02	PhD in Physics, Boston University (2002); currently at General Electric R+D Labs, Schnectady, NY.
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Class of 1995
Blackmon, Kristen		1995	12/00	Currently (2000) a 2nd year student in MD/PhD program at Boston University
Cho, Kathie	send	1995		currently in Medical School at The Medical College of Virginia
Marciniak, Emily	send	1995		Worked on staff at MIT Lincoln Lab, 1998: working for an information technology (IT) consulting firm called Legacy Technology, based in Burlington, MA.2000: I got married and moved to Guam last year. My husband is in the Navy. I'm teaching aerobics and English conversation - and really enjoying it! I'm looking into going to grad school for something related to exercise or nutrition when I get back in June 2001.
Schwartz, Nina	send	1995		Masters in Biophysics from the University of Rochester.
Taylor, Deanne	send	1995	12/07	I'm a Research Scientist at Harvard now in the School of Public Health -- heading up the School's Bioinformatics Core in the Biostatistics Department. Still doing a lot of molecular physics things with structural biology, but also doing a lot of information management. For my second job, I'm also chair of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program in the Rabb School of Continuing Studies at Brandeis University, where I've designed the Program and manage it.
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Class of 1994
Abbas, Erika	send	1994	3/02	PhD in Materials Science at MIT (1999); currently working at E Ink Corp. in Cambridge, MA, developing test methods to determine the lifetime of a new display medium that looks and feels like ink on paper, but is completely re-writeable, like a computer display.
Griffith, A. Elizabeth	send	1994	9/08	PhD in Mechanical Engineering: fluid mechanics, heat transfer and multiphase flow at Cornell University (2000); Assistant Professor of Physics at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, with research in physical oceanography.
Fenske, Jill	send	1994	4/01	PhD in Chemical Engineering at UCLA (2000); currently an environmental consultant - liaison between industry and regulatory agencies.
LaLanne, Elaine	send	1994	4/05	PhD in applied physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology/ Rutgers University-Newark (2003); currently an assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research, University of Maryland.
Simon, Inpakala	send	1994	4/03	Received Masters in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins in 1996; worked for four years as Senior Programmer & Analyst at John Hopkins SChool of Medicine; currently working as a Software Developer at The Mathworks in Natick, MA.
Tavernier, Heather	send	1994	4/08	Instructor in Science Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Wellesley College.
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Class of 1993
Davisson, Margaret		1993		???
Glass, Jennifer	send	1993	4/05	PhD in Physics, University of California-Berkeley (2001); currently a Manager of Optical Engineering at Cepheid, a biotech company in Sunnyvale, CA.
Kipers, Genevieve		1993		???
Maene, Sara		1993		Masters in astronomy at Penn State
McGhee, Colleen	send	1993	9/00	PhD in Astronomy - Cornell (2000); currently working as a postdoc for Dick French at Wellesley.
Maier, Therese	send	1993		PhD in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia (1998).
McDonald, Christine	send	1993	6/03	After working for the Polaroid COrp. for a number of years, in 2001 I completed the Technology and Policy Program at MIT, receiving Master's degrees in Technology Policy and Environmental Engineering. I currently work in the White House Office of Management and Budget, focusing on environmental policy issues and the EPA.
Mowery, Allison		1993		High School teacher of physics, algebra, Intro Science??
Pedraza, Alison		1993		???
Wenner McCrickard, Lisa	send	1993	09/04	Peace Corps, then PhD program in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Currently an instructor in the Veterinary College, Virginia Tech. Also doing medical informatics research and network administration work.
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Class of 1992
Abbott, Mary-Alice	send	1992		2000: received MD/PhD degrees from University of Massachusetts. July 2000: I have a new address: 956 Longmeadow St Longmeadow, MA 01106. A few weeks ago I started a pediatrics residency at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford. Im planning on doing a genetics fellowship after residency, and work eventually in clinical genetics doing a little research on the side.
Gothro, Anne	send	1992	10/00	Working as engineer/estimator for Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc., on a range of tunnel projects.
Mason, Emily	send	1992		Teaching High School Physics in Marin County, California
Mukasa, Rita		1992		Engineering at University of Cincinnati
Nora, Elizabeth		1992		enrolled in MD/PhD program at Medical College of Wisconsin
Pisani, Laura	send	1992	7/02	received Masters in Medical Physics from McGill University; PhD in Medical Physics, Oakland University, Michigan (2002)
Ryan Alkasab, Jeannette	send	1992		Materials Science program at MIT ; " Currently I am doing some light programming and database work for Tufts Medical School and am a professional singer/actor. (On a personal note, I am also six months pregnant.)"
Whitney, Carolyn	send	1992		Masters program in Telecommunications -University of Colorado; working for airtouch
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Class of 1991
Battles, Amy	send	1991		Masters in Mechanical Engineering from MIT; "I've been working for Hewlett-Packard since graduating from MIT. I started in Idaho working on disk drives and transferred here to Colorado 3 years ago where I am working on digital imaging products. I did mechanical design on HP's PhotoSmart scanners and more recently have been doing user interface design for future PhotoSmart digital cameras."
Bedard, Katherine	send	1991	4/03	PhD program in Philosophy of Science at Princeton University / (NSF Predoc. Fellowship) June, 2000: finished my Ph.D.at Princeton in 1997 and decided not to be a philosopher. My husband (a string theorist - if you can't be a physicist, you might as well marry one) got a post doc at Caltech, so we were in Pasadena for three years. I received a law degree from the U. of Chicago and am now a tax lawyer at Irell and Manella in Los Angeles. We have a daughter, Stella Margaret Kraus.
Bruno, Monica		1991		PhD program in Spanish at Columbia University
Chanover, Nancy	send	1991	11/01	received PhD in Astronomy from New Mexico State University, 1997; Post-Doc at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Currently Assistant Professor of Astronomy at New Mexico State
Kawanishi, Grace		1991		Engineering Job in Hawaii
Kendziorski, Beatrice		1991		Working at MIT Lincoln Labs??
Kraus, Kimberly		1991		Engineering at University of Cincinnati
Steinberg, Tracie	send or send	1991		Physics Lab Instructor at Wellesley, MBA from Babson College. Now working for a small company called DALBAR in Boston which conducts market research for financial services companies.
Woods, Tara		1991		Software Engineer at MathSoft in Cambridge, MA
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Class of 1990
Brindley, Bianca		1990		received MD from University of Alabama, 1994
Mavalvala, Nergis	send	1990	4/08	Associate Professor of Physics, MIT.
Rao, Leela		1990		PhD/Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison??
Zhang, Bin	send	1990		Masters program in Computer Science from Harvard University, Worked as software engineer designing educational software at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA. (Played a key role in the GenScope project.) Currently working at Lycos, Inc. in Waltham, MA.
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Class of 1989
Attridge, Jody	send	1989		"I received my Ph.D. in Physics (focus in Astrophysics) [from Brandeis] in 1998, and am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Haystack Observatory."
Blais, Kristin	send	1989	2/01	received PhD in Astronomy from University of Hawaii, 1997; currently a Sensor Systems Engineer, Raytheon.
O'Connor, Margaret		1989		??
O'Leary, Maureen	send	1989		received PhD in Physics from Univ. of Pennsylvania
Ryeom, Sandra		1989		Working at Brigham & Women's Hospital ???
Warriner, Heidi		1989		received PhD in Physics from University of California-Santa Barbara; Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Pittsburgh
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Class of 1987
Barton-Davis, Elisabeth Ruth	send	1987		I received my Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics in 1996 from the University of Washington, and then did my postdoctoral training in the Department of Physiology at University of Pennsylvania. Starting in January 2003, I have accepted an assistant professorship in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Pennsylvania Dental School. For lack of a better term, I am a molecular physiologist, in which I study ways to improve growth and repair of muscle.
Brubaker Burnett, Sarah	send	1987		Associate Director, Systems Integration Development Manager, Cambridge Technology Partners (87-91). Vice-President, Manager of Technical Account Management Group, Bridge Information/EJV Partners LP, New York, NY (91-99). Vice- President, Director of US Technical Marketing, Instinet Corporation, New York, NY (1999-Present). Senior technologies Manager with 15 years' experience working with leading edge technology in the systems integration and finance areas.
Lin, Hsiu-Yi		1987		MBA Harvard 1991. At Citibank Berhad in Juala Lumpur, Malaysia: Manager, Local Corporation Group (1991-93), Assistant Vice President, Local Corporate Group Head (1994-1995), Vice President. Senior Transactor, Corporate Banking Group (1995-present), Vice President, Structured Securitization (1997-1998), Vice President Business Head/Transaction Services Head (2000-present). My present position includes the responsibility to define product and business strategy for the Cash Management, Trade Finance/Services and Securities businesses, together with responsibility for the profitability of these three businesses. Also, responsible for Citibank Berhad's corporate e-Commerce strategy, including the development of new products and solutions for B2B e-Commerce flows. The e-Business team consists of 43 sales, product and implementation managers in 3 branches. The transaction services business represents approximately 36% of Citibank Berhad's revenue.
Kushner Pratt, Reyna	send	1987		Taught high school Physics and Math at Berkshire School, co-ed boarding school in MA ('87- '91). Earned M. Phil in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from George Washington University and now working toward a Ph.D. ('91-present). Teaching General Physics and AP Physics (both B and C) at The Madeira School, all-girls boarding/day school in McLean VA ('98-present). The Head mistress is Wellesley '69. Love my job! Highly recommend this field! Got married in Sept '92, and have two kids: Ali, born in Aug '95, and Harrison, born in June '98.
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Class of 1986
Kahn Dewan, Rumana Ahmad	send	1986
Lyu, Claire		1986
Hendrickson Swain, Tamara		1986
Swigart, Carrie R.	send	1986		Physics Instructor at St. George's School, Newport, RI (86-87). MD at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1991). Yale-New Haven Hospital: Intern-General Surgery (91-92), Resident-Orthopaedics (92-92). Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY: Fellow-Hand Surgery (96-97). Assistant Clinical Professor in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University (97-present). Area of specialty in orthopaedics is Hand Surgery.
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Class of 1985
Canizares, Ana		1985
Cousins, Sarah	send	1985
Goldberg, Jill	send	1985		MS (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) in Physics from University of Maryland. National Research Council Research Associate (92-93) at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC. Assistant Professor of Physics (93-96) Colorado College. Software Technical Services (96-97) Colorado Springs, CO, Senior Software Engineer at Steeplechase Software Inc. (97-99) and Applied Dynamics International (99-00) Ann Arbor, MI. Managing Partner Cognitive Bionics Inc. (00-present) Ann Arbor. Consult with scientists and engineers to provide guidance and implement scientific computing solutions.
Brown Mecklenborg, Noreen G.	send	1985		Worked at Draper Lab doing mostly computer programming until 1989. From there, I went to Tulsa, OK to program for American Airlines/SABRE. I married in 1991, moved back to NH in 1995 and had our third child in 2001. I am currently a full-time, home schooling Mom, and believe me, that is like working three full-time jobs simultaneously!
Nigro, Laura J.	send	1985		'87, MS physics from University of Colorado at Boulder (CUB). 2 years work at CUB's Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research and Center for Study of Earth from Space. 2 years as contract tutor of physics/calculus to CUB's Navy R.O.T.C. & Minority Engineer-ing Program. Rollerblading waitress for 14 months. In '94, migrated to the non-profit sector (with one foray into corporate high-tech). Since '99, marketing director of the Portland, OR chapter of UJC-Federation, an international philanthropy that raises money for diverse human services plus rescue & relief. Volunteer in interfaith/multi-cultural reconciliation, justice & healing w/ global network of colleagues. Locally, volunteer facilitator of inter-racial dialogues on racism. Avid blood donor; big fan of Buster Keaton & Benny Hill.
Norton, Jennifer		1985		Masters in Applied Science, UC Davis (1992); Physicist specializing in environmental science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA. On a more personal note, I married a fellow Applied Science (physics) Ph.D. graduate student, David Larson, who also works at the Lab. We have two sons, Miles and Matthew, who will soon turn 3 and 1.
Oh, Susan		1985
Vo, Dieu-Tho		1985
Yeh Huoy-Ming	send	1985		After getting my Master in Electrical Engineering, I worked 8 years as a microprocessor design engineer. Following that, I went back to Boston to get my MBA from MIT/Sloan and became a venture capitalist. My positions were as follows: J. P. Morgan & Company, Hong Kong, Summer Associate (1995); Lehman Brothers Inc. Associate, Investment Banking-Global Technology Advisory Funding, San Mateo, CA, Consultant, Venture Capital Investing-Corporate Finance Group (1998-present); Parcim Venture Partners, San Mateo, CA, Director (1999-present).
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Class of 1984
Aram, Sherene		1984
Hall, Katherine		1984
Henning, Patricia	send	1984		MS 1986, Ph.D. 1990 in Astronomy from the University of Maryland. 1990 - 1993 Postdoc at the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands. 1993 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico (UNM), 1999 - present, Associate Professor, UNM. Currently, Director of the Institute for Astrophysics, UNM. My research focuses on mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe in regions, which are optically obscured by our Milky Way galaxy. I use the 21-cm hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen as the tracer of the Galaxies to learn about the neutral component of the galaxies' own interstellar media. This work is carried out using radio telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Lasky Pappas, Karen		1984
Butler Polson, Suzanne	send	1984		Have spent 18 years working for TRW, Inc, a major government contractor. Started as a software developer of radar systems, and moved into program management of contracts for NASA, DoD, and DoE. Have moved all over the country with TRW. Currently, living in Denver managing a major DoD contract. I love the mix of technology and business!
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Class of 1983
Winston Bilodeau, Leslie	send	1983		Immediately, after graduation I worked for my husband's company writing software. Then I enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where I received my master's degree. My thesis was a model for examining changes in bulk viscosity in a binary fluid as pressure changed. A rise in bulk viscosity would signal the onset of phase change and the Rayleigh-Brillouin light scattering spectrum should exhibit telltale spikes. The fluid was a rocket propellant, and Department of Defense was interested in its basic properties. While I finished the required coursework in three semesters it took me three more years to finish the thesis because I had two children along the way and moved three times. I was expecting my third when I gave my defense. I have been a stay-at-home mom since, and we now have nine children in our family. We home school our children. A liberal arts education was a good preparation!
Brill, Ellen		1983
Davis, Susan	send	1983		I am a Senior Semiconductor Process Engineer working primarily as a data analyst for the Research Group at Raytheon's RF Components in Andover, MA. My Wellesley degree has served me well. I have worked in the research group at Raytheon since 1985. The group has gone through many changes over the years and my career has followed suit. I have survived several lay-offs and restructuring, and happier than ever in the situation I now find myself.
Smith Holland, Christy	send	1983		MS (1985), M.Phil (1987), Ph.D. (1989) Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University. Post-Doctoral Associate (89-91) Associate Research Scientist (91-94) Yale University. Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiology (1994-2001), Associate Professor Dept. of Aerospace Engineering (1999-2001), Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering (2001-present) University of Cincinnati. I helped form a new department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati and graduate program in 2001, with support from the Whitaker Foundation. My primary research interests are ultrasound, ultrasound bioeffects, ultrasound thrombolysis, acoustic cavitation and Doppler detection of flow. I just completed a 3 year stint on the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society of America and am still on the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Kittredge, Catherine	send	1983
McCormack, Elizabeth	send	1983		Received Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University in 1989. Joined The Laser Photophysics and Photochemistry group at Argonne National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Awarded an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (1990). Became a Staff Physicist at Argonne in 1991. Left Argonne (1995) for a faculty appointment at Bryn Mawr. At Bryn Mawr, I initiated a new research program in molecular Physics with funding from the NSF. My research uses techniques in laser spectroscopy to study fundamental characteristics and excited state decay dynamics of small molecules. I serve as a physics curriculum consultant to Effat College, a new college for women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Melroy, Pamela		1983		I am an Air Force test pilot and pilot astronaut at NASA. I participated in the developmental testing of the C-17. Flew on the Space Shuttle in October 2000 on STS-92 and am currently scheduled to fly again in August 2002 on STS-112.
White, Catherine	send			In 1993, Stuart and I started a business with the unlikely name of Llamagraphics to become pioneers in the fledgling industry of creating software for handheld computers, beginning with the Apple Newton Message Pad. Our primary product, Life Balance (TM), is coaching software that provides a dynamically ordered To Do List driven by the importance of your goals, your desired allocation of time and effort, and feed-back from what you get done each day. The ebb and flow of your task list is managed automatically for you, which makes it easier to balance the often-conflicting demands of career and personal life. Life Balance for Palm OS was named one of the best productivity applications of 2001 by Handheld Computing magazine. In Spring 2002, we introduced a desktop edition for Macintosh, and the Windows edition will be released Fall 2002. Our web site http://www.llamagraphics.com includes lots of essays taken from our daily lives, if anyone wants to know what we're up to, that's definitely the place to look!
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Class of 1982
Eades Frank, Elizabeth		1982
Harada, Larrene	send	1982		Attended graduate school in physics at Johns Hopkins University (1982-1985). Worked at the Naval Research Laboratory in the Upper Atmospherics Physics Branch (1985-1987) and at Schafer Corporation investigating the atmospheric effects of various high energy laser systems (1987-2000) When I left there I was managing a group of scientists that were supporting the Space Based Laser program. I now spend most of my time caring for children, but I also consult.
Hickman, Jennifer	send	1982
Longtin, Mary	send	1982		1982-1987 -- graduate work in physics at Dartmouth College. Received Ph.D., thesis in space plasma physics. 1988-1989 -- post-doc at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, continued thesis work 1989-1997 -- Analyst for Science Applications Int'l Corp, Maclean, VA. Studied electromagnetic compatibility issues. 1997-present -- Research & Development Engineer for Ansoft Corp, Pittsburgh, PA. Develop software to model electromagnetic effects in a wide variety of systems Ansoft is the company that makes HFSS (High Frequency Structure Simulator), a code that calculates electromagnetic fields in just about any structure, and over a very wide range of frequencies. It's probably our best-known product.
Matsumura Suzuki, Kumiko	send	1982		After graduation from Wellesley, I came back to Japan and worked full time as an information specialist at a management-consulting firm for 5 years. I worked for another consulting firm on a freelance basis for about 12 years. I got married in 1999 and am trying to be "mom" for my husband's 2 boys from his first marriage.
Bowen Votaw, Karen		1982		After graduating, I took a programmer/analyst position in the Ocean Sciences Division of a government contractor called Science Applications Inc. (SAI). We did mostly numerical field of underwater acoustics. Our primary customer was the Navy. The company is unusual in that it is employee-owned. Over the years, it has grown from a technical research firm of a couple thousand employees, highly-dependent on the federal govern-ment, to a vast (40000+ employees, $6 billion revenues) diversified, research and engineering company. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) remains privately held by (mostly) current employees. I still work in the Ocean Sciences Division, although we have had much reorganization. Most of my work is still for the Navy, including acoustical modeling, area preassessments for sea tests, some data analysis, numerical characterization of the acoustic environment, modeling of the sea floor, etc. I twice delivered software system for the Japanese Defense Force.
Wilson, Julie	send	1982	9/09	After receiving an M.S. in Physics from the University of Washington in 1986 which included plasma physics research on field reverse configurations (FRC’s), I joined Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA in the early years of the company. Held various positions in Redmond and at the UK subsidiary in International Marketing and Product Support and worked on a broad range of products. Moved to the Netherlands in 1995 with my Dutch husband and daughter, just before our son was born. Juggled two toddlers and multiple relocations in those early years, while learning the language via slow immersion and volunteer work. At the moment family needs and a passion for gardening still outweigh the impulse to return to the workforce. I recently became a Dutch citizen!
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Class of 1981
Fagerson, Elizabeth		1981
Imanishi, Yuri	send	1981		After Wellesley, I went to Harvard Medical School (HSTdivision), Got married to Brian Swift (who used to teach photography at Wellesley) did my residency at Rhode Island Hospital. After our first child (11 1/2 years ago), we moved to Maui and we are still here. Our second child is almost nine. We have a cat, 2 dogs and 5 birds. I am working as an internist at Kaiser (an HMO). Maui is beautiful, but I don't get to go to the beaches too often. As a result, I am a "permanently" beginning surfer.
Chang Jones, Ruth	send	1981		After Wellesley graduation, I worked in computer programming before returning to grad school at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Despite my concentration in Management of Technological Innovation, I was recruited into Finance with Procter & Gamble and spent 13 years in various business roles within Finance. In 2000, I was recruited to Ford Motor Company in Finance, where I see more varied career options open to me both within Finance and also on the Operating Management side. The automotive industry is about as complex a business as it gets, and I enjoy the challenge and fun.
Prentiss, Mara	send	1981	3/08	Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University. The research group headed by Mara Prentiss emphasizes the manipulation of matter by light. The experiments are based on the interaction between a laser field and the dipole moment induced in an atom by the field. Professor Prentiss is head of the Consortium for Light Force Dynamics, through which the group collaborates with NIST at Gaithersburg, Colorado State University, and the Harvard Chemistry Department.
Wilson, Jane		1981
Wysong, Ingrid	send	1981		Received MS (1984), Ph.D. (1987), Post-Doctoral Fellow (1982-87) University of Oregon, Eugene. Scientist, Assist. Site manager SRI International Molecular Physics Lab, Menlo Park, CA (1988-90). Senior General Physical scientist at Raytheon Technology and Physics (1990-99), Program Manager for Space (1999-2001) Air Force Research Lab, Edwards AFB, CA. Manage US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (EOARD) basic research activities in Europe including conference support, visits of scientists to US laboratories and contracts at universities and institutes EOARD London, UK (2001-present). Research projects in areas of rarefied gas dynamics, electric propulsion and nonequilbrium reacting gas flows, laser induced fluorescence of high-altitude plume flow and vibrational energy transfer in diatomic molecules.
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Class of 1980
Crocker, Deborah		1980
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Class of 1979
Baird, Cynthia		1979		I received an MS in Physics from Northeastern University in 1984 and then an MS in Electrical Engineering also from Northeastern in 1991. I've been doing software engineering for almost 10 years, mostly as a consultant. Right now, I'm working on satellite communication at Raytheon.
Kintzer, Emily		1979		1979-1981 University of Michigan, MS in Physics. 1981-1985 Stanford University, Ph.D. in Applied Physics. Thesis work in high-resolution laser spectroscopy of rare earth ions in crystals. 1985-1986 Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany, Post-doctoral Fellowship. Research in UV dye lasers and nonlinear optics. 1986-1998 MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA. R&D work in high power semiconductor lasers and amplifiers, high data rate optical communications for satellite applications. Mentored two MIT graduate students on Ph.D. thesis research. 1998-present Ciena Corporation, Maryland. Ciena is an optical telecommunication equipment provider. My current position is Director of Advanced Technology Development for optical transport products.
Ruth, Laura		1979
Thiel Thayer, Anne	send	1979		After graduation, I taught physcis at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts for four years. Taught general science for 2 years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Seychelles. Went to graduate school for a long time: Ph.D. in Religion from Harvard in 1996. Taught at Stonehill College, N. Easton, MA for three years. Now teaching Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary since 1999. Married to John Thayer (MIT 1979); mother of Elizabeth and Carolyn.
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Class of 1978
Wey Crum, Susan	send	1978		MS Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University (1982). MBA, Harvard Business School (1984). I have been involved in the datacom/networking industry since 1988. Currently I am a datacom/telecom marketing consultant to the Fortune 1000 and start-ups.
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Class of 1977
Drell, Persis	send	1977	3/03	Completed Ph.D. atomic physics at Berkeley in 1983, switched fields to high energy experimental physics, and worked as a postdoc on the Mark II experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Moved to Cornell as an Assistant Professor in 1988 where my research focused on studies of charm and bottom quarks to measure the fundamental parameters of the weak interaction. Also worked in astrophysics, having performed a critical study of supernovae and their utility as cosmological distance markers. Served as Deputy Director of Cornell's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies and as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Physics Department at Cornell while teaching a broad variety of graduate and under-graduate physics courses. Accepted the position as Professor at Stanford and as Associate Director of the Research Division of SLAC and started work there in late spring 2002.
Young, Roberta		1977
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Class of 1976
Yanni, Barbara		1976
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Class of 1975
Chin Yee, Pamela	send	1975		Majored in both astronomy and physics at Wellesley. I earned an SM Degree in marketing and finance at MIT''s Sloan School of Management. Over 20 years of marketing-oriented finance work followed, mostly with Time Inc (Sports Illustrated magazine) in New York. Also with the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC and with the Walt Disney Company's online group in Los Angeles.
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Class of 1974
Capron, Barbara	send	1974		After graduation, I spent two years at the University of California in Santa Cruz, obtaining an MS in Astronomy. I returned to Massachusetts where I was employed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and later at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, in opto-radar group. In 1982 my husband and I both resigned our positions at Lincoln Labs and returned to graduate school at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona. We completed our doctorates in 1986 and began research positions at the Boeing High Technology Center outside of Seattle. I find it hard to believe that I have been at Boeing for 15 years doing various forms of applied research in optics and photonics. Currently I am an Associate Technical Fellow in the Optical Technologies group where I work mostly on internal research and development or government contracts. My work at Boeing has varied from studies in nonlinear optics for optical processing and computing, designing and building a laser radar used to manufacture airplanes, designing and building an interferometer for use in a wind tunnel to studies of photonic bandgap devices for laser communications applications. Washington State is a beautiful place to live and we enjoy many outdoor activities year round.
Hunt, Alison		1974		Left native New England for Pittsburgh, PA; Bioengineering my initial foray. Then graduate school, where (please pardon initials), A MS in EE from CMU made official My right to recite the old saying, in fun: "I can't spell engineer, but now I are one!" My one claim to fame, with thesis complete, Was having Carl Sagan say, "That's really neat!" Married my soulmate, joined Westinghouse Electric, Designed robots and imaging systems, et cetric. Patented pattern recognizers and such; Worked a long time, 'til I'd worked too much. Now I'm back in MA on thirty acres on a hill Creating fine art in my studio for thrills. I hybridize daylilies, weld sculpture sometimes, Enjoying my life, as long as life's mine.
Grannan Patton, Diane		1974		I received my Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978 in experi-mental high-energy physics under Bob Adair. After Yale, I did a 2-year post-doc at Ohio State University in low temperature physics studying the transition in composite materials from insulator to conductor. After OSU, I joined AT&T Bell Labora-tories in New Jersey, studying semi-conductor materials. I only worked there for a year before transferring back to Columbus to get married. Because of the lack of physics research at the Bell Labs facility in Columbus, I transferred to a department that develops software for network management systems for tele-phone companies. That work transition was very easy because of my extensive experience with computers, particularly in high-energy physics. At Bell Laboratories, now part of Lucent Tech-nologies, I was fairly successful even though I chose to work part time for most of my years there in order to raise my 3 children. I still work part time, although very close to full time at 35 hours/week. I was a supervisor for a couple of years before my 3rd child came along and forced me back to part time work. I am currently a Distinguished Member of Staff there. I was married in 1981 to Bruce Patton who is a Professor of Physics at Ohio State University. We have 3 children: Ken (18), Alex (16), and Lindsey (12). Ken is now a freshman at Swarthmore College and is strongly considering physics as a major.
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Class of 1973
Haynes, Martha		1973		I received by Ph.D. in Astronomy from Indiana University in 1978, spent my last two years as a graduate student in residence at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and then was a postdoc and staff member at the Arecibo Observatory of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. In 1981, I became site director of the NRAO's facility in Green Bank, WV. but left to join the faculty at Cornell (which runs Arecibo) in 1983 where I've been very since. I still retain close ties with both NRAO and Arecibo and happily use any telescope that anyone lets me get my hands on to study galaxies and the large scale structure of the universe. When life seems to get too crazy, I escape with my co-cosmologist husband of 25 years to our farmhouse in northern Italy.
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Class of 1972
Kwitter, Karen		1972		MA (74) and Ph.D. (79) in Astronomy from UCLA. Currently Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy, Williams College. My current research is focused on chemical abundances in planetary nebulae as a function of their progenitor masses and metallicities. The project included use of archived ultraviolet spectra from the IUE satellite, optical observations from the 2.1 meter telescope at Kitt Peak, the 1.5 meter telescope at Cerro Tololo, as well as computer modeling of the nebulae and the evolution of their central stars. On this project, students have observed at Kitt Peak. This project has recently been expanded to investigate the abundances of sulfur and argon in planetary nebulae. In the stellar mass range that produces planetary nebulae, the abundances of these elements are not expected to be affected by the nuclear processing that drives changes in the carbon, helium, and nitrogen abundances during billions of years of stellar evolution. So by studying sulfur and argon in planetary nebulae now, we have the exciting prospect of investigating the chemical evolution of the Galaxy over time.
Ng, Wai-Yee	send	1972		Since I left Wellesley, I have spent most of these years in Hong Kong. For the first five years after I left the United States, I was a secondary school teacher, teaching science and biblical knowledge. Then, for seven years, I worked at a Christian broadcasting company, FEBC, and became so interested in New Testament Studies I went back to the United States to further study. Since then I have finished a doctorate at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. I am now an Associate Professor in China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong. My Christian faith has been the major focus of my career. The study of physics at Wellesley conditioned me to a rational way of thinking that later shaped my theology.
Ng Schreiber, Helen (Dr.)	send	1972		I did a year's graduate study at MIT and received a Master of Science in Biology. Then I went home to Hong Kong. From 1973 to 1978, I studied at the (then British) University of Hong Kong, receiving a MB and BS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) in 1978. I met my husband, Dr. Michael Schreiber, a medical student on exchange from Heidelberg, Germany, in 1977. After graduation, we both did further medical training in Britain, I specialized in Pediatrics, he in Internal Medicine. We were married in England 1981. Since 1983 we have settled back in Germany. We have 3 children, now age 19, 17, and 15. Since 1992, we have a joint practice as Consultant Pediatrician and Physician, featuring Natural Medicine, Homeopathy and Acupuncture. We are happy in career and family life.
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Class of 1971
Bartos, Stephannie	send	1971		I realized during my first year of grad school in architecture at the University of Oregon (1971-72) that the Wellesley classes were not just exciting ends to themselves, but excellent underpinning for a breadth of future study and design. I shared my position of top student out of 150+ others in three structure classes that year only with another Wellesley woman! I spent 3 years after that at MIT, graduating as their 'most outstanding student in Architecture' in 1975, the first woman to do so. I found out that I was nominated for that (and the AIA medal) by Waclav Zalewski, a wonderful structural engineer and professor, from whom I had taken an upper level course that focused on developing mathematical rules of thumb for building physics design. After twenty plus years of architectural practice and no teaching, I took the FitzGibbon Chair (a revolving chair in architecture geared to practitioners) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). I am presently an Assistant Professor at CMU. I still talk to my students about holistic structural integrity. They do wonder a bit when I explain that they can imagine their buildings as made of notebook paper and tape, and then separately, as the same mass made of sheets of layer cake, no frosting, when thinking of performance during an earthquake. I have had several opportunities to work on multi-year projects with Ove Arup engineers, whom I consider the best worldwide; those projects have been published plentifully. My experience in Physics at Wellesley gave me the knowledge and base (creatively and critically) and the fearlessness to incorporate very good thinkers/designers into design teams.
Dolan, Louise	send	1971		Ph.D. MIT, 1976. Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina. Research interests are in the theory of elementary particle physics. This involves non-perturbative approximations in quantum field theory in analyzing quark confinement, unified gauge field theories, particularly within the superstring description of four-dimensional phenomenology; applications of finite temperature field theory and superstring theory to the particle-physics cosmology interface; and developing a deeper understanding of solutions of string theory of M-theory and supergravity.
Sutphin Hafer, Ann	send	1971	09/04	I received an MA in physics in 1973 from the University of Virginia. From 1973 to 1979, I worked for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground. I wrote software for vulnerability/lethality analysis of shaped charges attacking armored vehicles. My husband, Thomas F. Hafer, MIT '70, was drafted in 1971 and sent to BRL. In 1979, we left BRL to work for System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor in Arlington, VA. We had a job-sharing arrangement at SPC for six years, so that one of us was always home with our children, until Tom transferred to DARPA. I have worked part-time for several defense contractors. In 1993-94 and fall 1997, I also taught middle school Latin. In 1995-96, I wrote software for the US Navy as a part-time employee of T. Carroll Associates, Inc. In 2003, I returned to TCA to edit documentation for new Navy software for ship vulnerability analysis. Our son, William, graduated from MIT in 2003 with a mechanical engineering degree. Our daughter, Virginia, graduated from Wellesley in 2004 with a physics degree. Both work for defense contractors in the Boston area.
Schlang Luna, Barbara	send	1971		I received a Ph.D. in Applied Math from Harvard University, with minors in Physics and Financial Analysis. I then worked as an investment banker at Warburg Paribas Becker for 2 years and, thereafter, as a consultant and accountant at Price Waterhouse for 6 1/2 years moving up through the ranks. At Price Waterhouse, I started doing litigation consulting, among other consulting areas, and became an expert witness. Since then, I have been an expert witness, accountant and appraiser with a number of firms and now with White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna & Wolf for 9 1/2 years (my own firm as a senior partner). In the evenings, I also taught working capital management and business finance at UCLA Graduate School of Management (now the Anderson School of Management), business finance at Cal State Northridge and accounting at Pepperdine's MBA program. The areas in which I typically testify involve quantifying damages (analyzing lost profits and lost earnings and valuing businesses and real estate), identifying fraud and misrepresentations in financial statements and business operations, opining on accountant's standard of care, and investigating and analyzing liability issues. I am married to Dennis Luna, a corporate attorney with Luna & Glushon, who I met at the first dance for both of us at Harvard. We have two children-John, a senior at Harvard majoring in Electrical Engineering, and Katherine, a sophomore at Stanford likely majoring in Physics or Engineering.
Kenney Marler, Cynthia		1971		I earned a MS in Applied Math from the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus, teach part-time at the College of DuPage mostly math classes, but sometimes Physics 100. My daughter, Joan, who graduated from Wellesley in 1999 is working with the plasma physics group at University of California, San Diego toward a Ph.D.
Reiff, Patricia	send	1971	10/09	I joined the Rice faculty in 1976 and have been involved in space plasma physics research for over twenty years. My principal interests are in magnetospheric convection, magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling, plasma particle populations and acceleration mechanisms, the aurora, and solar influence on the magnetosphere and ionosphere. I was involved in plasma data analysis for a number of spacecraft including the Apollo and Atmosphere Explorer missions, the Dynamics Explorer Mission, the Polar and Global Geospace Science Missions and the ESA Cluster spacecraft mission. In 1994 I received a grant from NASA to create interactive real-time exhibits of space science data for museums and schools, with cur-rent terrestrial weather, space weather, and solar image data taken from the internet. I have many refereed publications and have served on advisory committees for the National Science Foundation, NASA, the National Academy of Science, and the Association of American Universities. I am married to another space physicist (Tom Hill). My three children are now all Rice U grads, and two are teachers: my twins: Adam who graduated in Mechanical Engineering is teaching 6th grade and Amelia is teaching High School art and computer-aided design. (That makes four generations of teachers or professors in my family). My older daughter Andrea is working at my planetarium company (www.discoverydome.com ). And I have trained now 11 PhD's (5 women) with one more (male).
Slovedt Tetrault, Deborah		1971
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Class of 1968
Dennis, Helen	send	1968		The software I work with is a tangled system with an old time physical Database at it's core-more modern software around the edges, but lots of assembler language code which deduces the business instead of the business being in the data. It takes a long time to figure out how to make it do something different when we need to change it. Worldspan is in Atlanta, at the intersection of the perimeter and I-75. I drive 9 miles north instead of 12 miles south, as I did when I was at Delta. I live in the apartment I moved to in 1970. It converted to condo and I bought the one next door and have combined them. I married a Delta friend in '95 - Steve Wooters- and the two of us live in these two apartments plus one downstairs that we rent.
Harte, Judith		1968		MS (1971) and Ph.D. (1975) in Applied Science at University of Davis, Livermore Extension, Livermore, CA. During my postdoc year at Berkeley, my research involved both analytic and computational studies of the diffusion across fields in the presence of an electrostatic wave with applications to Tokamak-type configurations. In 86-87, I taught at Wellesley as a leave replacement. Except for that year, I have been at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA where I am a computational physicist working on LASNEX, the laser fusion target-design code. I was acting LASNEX project director (1996-97).
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Class of 1967
Sweetman Chambliss, Cynthia		1967		I started in a Ph.D. physics program at Tufts, but after two years I switched to a computer programming job at Digital Equipment in Maynard. I advanced to 'Physics Marketing Specialist' and was sent to high-energy physics meetings in Mexico City (AEC) and Trieste (Inter-national Atomic Energy Commission). It was fun to travel, but machine language programming at that time was like doing crossword puzzles, and I became bored with figuring out puzzles in my windowless, box-like office. We moved to England where I taught programming for DEC for 6 months until my first child was born. After 18 months, we moved to Singapore. I had a second daughter, came to Yale and started medical school. I considered specializing in Radiation Oncology because of my physics background, but fell in love with pediatrics and did a fellowship at Harvard in Pediatric Oncology at Boston Children's/Dana Farber. I worked at MGH for 5 years, and then went to Tufts New England Medical Center where I am one of the top dozen or so pediatric oncologists on the national committees -now mentoring young investigators, serving on Boards, and dealing with non-medical issues.
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Class of 1966
Hulsing Fehrs, Mary		1966
Hughs Hall, Bronwyn	send	1966		When I left college, I married an economist who was just finishing graduate school at MIT. My first two jobs were as Programmer in the Lyman Laboratory of Physics Harvard) and then programmer in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (UC Berkeley). In 1970, my husband and two children and I moved back to Cambridge, MA from Berkeley. In the course of working at the Harvard Institute of Economic Research, I gradually became interested in the subject matter, audited a couple of econometrics courses, and co-authored a couple of papers. I moved to Stanford in 1977 and became a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1983, I entered the Ph.D. program at Stanford University in economics. In 1987,I began my first teaching job as Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, where I had begun a stint as the wife of an Assistant Professor of Economics exactly twenty years earlier. I was promoted to tenure in 1993. Beginning with a visit to INSEE, Paris, in 1987, I have also spent a considerable amount of time working and researching in Europe, including a term at the New Economics School in Moscow and for three years as a part time Temporary Professor of Economics at Oxford.
Kelley Quigg, Elizabeth	send	1966	10/07	After Wellesley, I worked as a scientific applications programmer at Livermore Lab (1.5 years), Lawrence Berkeley Lab (2.5 years) and University of New York at Stony Brook (4 years). I was an applications programmer at Fermilab for 13 years after Stony Brook. I spent three years in California (1987-90) where I got a Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. I had a summer internship and consulted at Apple computer for one year and then moved back to Illinois. I returned to Fermilab's Lederman Science Education Center where I am a multimedia/web/database developer for the Education Office. I helped develop many of the exhibits and computer-based activities for students and teachers. My husband, Chris, is in the Theory Department at Fermilab. We have two children and one granddaughter.
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Class of 1965
Wright Hendrickson, Ruth	send	1965		65-69 R & D Engineer, Northrop. 69-89 Home with the kids. Served as president or chair of Recycling, Housing, and School Committees. 89-present Brooks Automation (Semiconductor Robotics as Tech Writer, Project Engineer, Marketing Engineer, Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager. Company grew from six million to four hundred million company. 38 years married to the same lovely man.
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Class of 1963
Johnke Alberg, Mary	send	1963		Received MS (1970), Ph.D. (1974) at University of Washington. Appointment at: Seattle University (78- present), Arline F. Bannan Chair, Mathematics and Physical Science (92-present). Appointment at University of Washington: Lecturer (74-75), Research Associate (74-77), Visiting Scholar (77-82), Affiliate Assoc. (82-93), Affiliate Professor (1993-Present). Physicist, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Health and Safety Lab (63-62). Visiting Fellow, Department of Nuclear Physics. Oxford University (75). I have worked on problems at the intersections of several fields: nuclear, particle and atomic physics. My current interests include exotic atoms (formed when an electron in an ordinary atom is replaced by another negatively charged particle, such as a kaon or an antiproton); the quark level description of reactions between hadrons (such as strangeness production in proton-antiproton annihilation); and the flavor and spin structure of the proton sea. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with undergraduate students.
Quisenberry Bjorkman, Elizabeth	send	1963		I was lucky to get into the computer field in the 1960's before there were experts and I managed a similar but more side door entry into the religion-science field (R/S) in the late 80's. The growing interest in the (R/S) dialogue is fueled by current efforts in bioengineering (what is a human being?), physics (what is matter?) and cosmology (universal questions). Scientists are now asking questions which were the exclusive purview of philosophers and theologians. An increasing number of theologians with philosophical leanings are bravely venturing across the divide, reading extensively mainly in the biological sciences. Any one interested in this growing field can visit the web site for the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) at www.iras.org. I currently serve on the council and the long-range conference planning committee and will happily try to answer any questions that cannot be answered from the web site. I also serve on the advisory board of the New England Center for Faith and Science Exchange (F&SE) and can supply information on our regional activities.
Fulton Fels, Margaret	send	1963		My career has moved from: research in atomic scattering physics (Ph.D. from University of California, Livermore-Davis Applied Science Program 1968; and post-doc at UCLA 1968-1971) to: research in energy conservation strategies (post-doc at U Chicago 1971-72, then to Princeton with another post-doc in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, 1972-75; an "experimental" part-time assistant professorship in the Civil Engineering Department, 1975-78; and Senior Research Scientist until 1995, with focus on developing standardized methodology for measuring energy savings achieved in conservation programs. Since 1995, I have been a Science Educator in Princeton's Teacher Preparation Program, supervising under-graduates doing practice teaching in science and math, and directing QUEST, a summer program in science for elementary teachers, 1995-98; as Special Project Director in the Center for Teaching and Learning, developed and directed the Learn-by-Teaching Program, wherein undergraduates in science courses develop hands-on science lessons and teach them in local schools, as a way of both learning the science better and offering an inspirational science experience for young kids, (1999-2001); to: development of energy conservation curriculum. I retired from Princeton University in 2001 and work independently.
Becker Witze, Carol		1963		Since Wellesley, I have been a computer programmer off and on. Mostly off. I began by teaching myself FORTRAN when Chris was in graduate school at Berkeley. Boxes of punched cards input into the IBM mainframe the size of a small house. After lengthy "maternity leaves" while our two daughters were growing up, I returned as a programmer analyst at Beneficial Data Processing for ten years. I had an early "retirement" in '92 when Chris and I moved to Australia. End of professional life. Chris was a con-tract employee with BellSouth at that time, working in the cell- ular phone industry. I couldn't work overseas. For five years, we lived in Australia (Sydney), New Zealand (Auckland), Germany (Düsseldorf), and back to Sydney. We moved to Santa Fe, where we have lived happily ever after since 1997. Today is a happy day. We had a new grandson born this morning. He joins 5-year-old twin brothers. With a lot of travel and many house-guests, I confine myself to volunteer work at the public library and the library of the Laboratory of Anthropology. LOA (part of the Museum of New Mexico) has one of the largest research collections of Southwest archaeology and anthropology in the country. The history, art, geology of the Southwest is fascinating.
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Class of 1961
Zagars Jones, Ileana		1961		Received MS in physics from Tufts University. Taught labs at Wellesley (62-63), PSSC physics and mathematics at Walnut Hill School (63-64), PSSC physics and Advanced placement physics at Needham High School (64-67), physics, Environmental Issues Middle School science at The Winsor School (74 - present) and Science Department Head (85-91). Received Ellen Endicott Forbes Teaching Award and Cabot Teaching Award at the Windsor School. Present passion in teaching is Environmental Issues. Married a secondary school teacher of French and English, Kimball Jones, in 1965 and have two children and four grandchildren
Julian, Andrea		1961
McCarthy, Mary Anne	send	1961		Most of my work has been in the defense industry. My first job in 1962, was at Bell Laboratories, working in the area of ballistic missile defense. After I got my MA in nuclear physics from Rice, I worked at Shell Development in Houston on computer simulations for recovering oil from shale. I found that I enjoyed the mathematical side of my work very much, so I decided to pursue a Ph.D. in numerical analysis at Rice. After receiving that degree I moved to Los Angeles and began searching for a teaching position, but jobs were scarce at that time, as I went back to the defense industry, where I worked for the remainder of my career. When my defense career ended, I had time to follow other paths that beckoned My first adventure was working as an extra and as the stand in for Henry Gibson in a movie called "Monster in the Closet." I have always been interested in archaeology, and so I volunteered for an Earthwatch project, the excavation of a Crusader castle on the island of Cyprus. I enjoyed the work and the people there very much. I enjoy Greek dancing for many years and take a dance class every week. At Wellesley, I took one semester of music and never learned to play an instrument or to read music. Now, I have learned to play an instrument called the hammered dulcimer and I enjoy teaching beginners how to use a computer, to dance Greek dances, or to play the hammered dulcimer.
Seraphimidou Vayaki, Anna	send	1961		After taking graduate courses in Athens at the research center Demokritos, I am an experimental particle physicist, helping to build up the group which by now is composed of 15 people at various levels. I got my doctorate from Ioannina University in 1977 and have been collaborating in bubble chamber experiments at CERN since 1969. Since 1980 in a large experiment at LEP, (Aleph), I have been preparing for experiments with the Large Hadron Collider (CMS). In general, my work is in neutrino physics and lepton interactions. I have spent over seven years of my life in Geneva, working on the experiments there. Since 1995 I had been head of the group, (official title was "director of research"), until last year when I retired. My poetic side blossomed four years ago. My web page as Anna Seraphimidou with my poems is:http://users.otenet.gr/~avayaki. I have two children, a boy, a physicist, working with ITER, on fusion. My daughter (MBA from University of Kent) lives with me in Athens.
Pruden Winnewisser, Brenda	send	1961		After obtaining my Ph. D. in electron spin resonance of DNA and its constituents, at Duke. I applied successfully for an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. By the time I got there, it was obvious that work I had planned to do was impossible because a piece of equipment was never delivered. I stayed in Germany, since I would be marrying Manfred Winnewisser, who had been at Duke and was returning to Germany. Working with him in gas phase molecular spectroscopy became a permanent habit. But that meant difficulty in finding two jobs in any given town. The upshot was that we spent 35 years in Germany, during which I had a fellowship for the first two, and another fellowship for four more years (half time) in the early 1990s. Otherwise I was a guest with a desk in the institute where my husband worked. This led to some lovely spectroscopy in the millimeter and infrared regions, studying molecules found in the interstellar medium and in the upper atmosphere. The lack of a proper job did not prevent invitations to speak occasionally at international meetings, edit journals and participate in meeting organization, which provided the recognition that made it enjoyable, as did the interactions with our graduate students and many visitors in the laboratory over the years. My most recent laboratory research has been about the infrared spectrum of solid hydrogen, and my biggest project right now is a biography of Hedwig Kohn, former member of the Department at Wellesley. Currently my husband and I are Adjunct Professors of Physics at Ohio State University enjoying physics in one form or other.
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Class of 1960
Stripling Burnworth, Essie	send	1960		My education at Wellesley set me up for a series of fascinating jobs over a forty-year career in systems analysis, computer information systems design and program management. I retired two years ago. Thirty five years ago I married an engineer from TRW. We have lived in Potomac ever since, raising two sons. Now we devote our time to a big orchard, garden and greenhouse. We have chickens, horses, a donkey, and six colonies of bees.
Chang Wan, Julia	send	1960		I received an MA in Chemistry (1970) and an Ed.D in Educational Administration (1978). I was a research assistant in biochemistry and chemistry in Cambridge, MA (60-64). I taught science at Palfrey Street School, Watertown, MA (67-68), physics and chemistry at Watertown High School (70-73) and Director of Science for Watertown Public Schools (73-79). From 1979 to 1983, I was Director of Curriculum at Federal Way Public Schools in Washington and from 1983 to 1995, I served as Program Direction for the Statewide Systemic Initiatives Program for the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. I was Director of the center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education at California State University in Fullerton 1995-2000. Officially, I retired from California State one and one-half years ago, but I am still working 60% of my time doing evaluation and assessment of undergraduate science research grants.
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Class of 1959
Wolman Blumen, Elizabeth		1959
Wolf Ivanick, Carol		1959		I have been a Wall Street lawyer for most of the time, specializing in employee benefits and pension investments. It's very interesting because I deal with all types of financial transactions. I have three children and was married twice. I enjoy traveling and New York stuff, as well as work.
Dubin Kuckes, Haralyn		1959		After graduating, I stayed home for 10 years, had three children, and acted as major parent while my husband Art worked hard doing physics at Princeton. In 1966 we had a sabbatical in England, which stretched to two happy years there. We left Princeton and came to Ithaca, New York where Art was a professor in applied physics at Cornell. With my youngest in school, I started my career there as a math teacher at Ithaca High School. I retired three months ago after 33 years as a math teacher and for 15 as head of the department. I loved teaching and managing the department of almost 20 teachers. It was a wonderful career for me. During those years I also taught a couple of classes in English, when needed and for four years was president of the 500 member Teachers' Association. During a sabbatical, I got a Master's degree in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell in 1984. While there I kept thinking about my Wellesley years, as I interacted in this program with students who reminded me of college days twenty-five years earlier.
Carroll Takats, Martha	send	1959	3/03	After graduating in 1959, I went to Wisconsin for a year and completed course work for a Master's degree. (I took the test two years later.) Got married in 1960, spent a year in Glasgow where Steve had a post-doc. During that year I sat in on some courses and did some work in the physics dept, and had a baby. (Andy). Moved to Philadelphia (Steve taught biology at Temple), had another baby (Dave). Started graduate school at Penn (experimental particle physics) and worked on an experiment at the Princeton-Penn accelerator (3 GeV). Had another baby (Mike, the last one). I started teaching at Ursinus in 1969, so I've been here 33 years! In addition to teaching the usual range of courses, I was department chair for about 10 years. I have developed a number of computer and technological applications for teaching. I have been pretty active in AAPT (both on the local and national level). I participated in 3 international --US, Japan, and China--conferences on physics teaching, one in each country (there were two other Wellesley graduates in the US delegation). In 1988, Steve and I taught for six months at Temple's campus in Tokyo (courses taught in English to mostly Japanese students), which was a great experience for both of us. I retired from Ursinus in May 2002.
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Class of 1958
Stevens Clark, Eva	send	1958		MS at Cornell in Physics (58-60). Thesis on diurnal variation of aurora. Married Gil Clark in 1959. Computer Programmer at Computer Center at UCSD (60-65). Worked part time after 1964 when Lisa was born. Computer Programmer at Health Facility at UCLA (65-69). Ellen born in 1966. Got my California Teaching credential at UCLA in the Master Arts Teaching Program in Physics. Taught at Locke High School in Watts (71-72), Harvard School then an independent boys' school (73-75), math at two junior high schools and eventually transferred to Venice High School where I stayed until retirement in 1996. I do voluntary tutoring in math and have become very active in the UCLA women's Club and am currently serving as its President.
McCarthy Richardson, Betty	send	1958		I did my graduate work in spectroscopy at low temperatures at Duke University. Duke was a very supportive place for a woman aspiring to a career in physics. There I met and married Bob Richardson, got my Ph.D., taught at North Carolina College and a physics class at Duke, and had two daughters, Jennifer and Pamela. Bob finished his degree and we moved to Ithaca, New York. In the Fall of 1966 Bob began work at Cornell in the laboratory of David Lee. Their goal was to observe the nuclear magnetic phase transition in solid He 3. In collaboration with Douglas Osheroff, a student who joined the group in 1967, they worked on cooling techniques and NMR instrumentation for studying low temperature helium liquids and solids. In the Fall of 1971, they made the accidental discovery that liquid He 3 undergoes a pairing transition similar to that of superconductors. The three were awarded the Nobel Prize for that work in 1996. When the girls were both in junior high school, I began to teach introductory physics at Cornell. I have recently (2003) completed writing an algebra based introductory physics textbook, College Physics, McGraw-Hill publ., with Alan Giambattista and my husband, Robert Richardson. I continue to teach a pre-med, introductory physics course at Cornell.
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Class of 1957
Rosenbaum Teplitz, Doris	send	1957	6/07	I got my PhD in elementary particle physics theory and like many high energy physicists have gravitated to astrophysics and cosmology. My recent work is on the Kuiper belt and on strange quark matter and its detection.
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Class of 1956
Boyce Chesick, Elizabeth		1956		Instructor in physics and received MS at Tufts University in the spring of '58. Taught Physics, Chemistry, and Geometry at Day Prospect Hill School in New Haven, CT. ('59-62). Taught Physics, Computers, and Physical Science at The Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, PA from 1963 to the present and served as Head of the Science Department from 1968 to the present. Received Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching 1988 and many other awards and recognition. Led number of workshops, presented many papers, and initiated a number of programs.
Stickle Hoyt, Martha		1956		I have been a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory Starting in 1957 where I worked on computer modeling, first in the Theoretical Division, then in the Computing Division when it was formed. I retired at the end of 1994 and have been doing volunteer work for the Santa Fe Opera and Friends of Mesa Public Library. I have two children. My daughter Andrea Haight is a polymer chemist in Albuquerque, and my son Brian is a neuropsychologist in Denver.
Simon Scott, Margaret	send	1956		MA in Political Science, Boston University 1965; MS in Human Resources Management, University of Utah 1974; Research Assistant Bell Telephone Labs, Whippany, NJ (56-58); Research Assistant Medical School, University of Louisville (59-60), Harvard University (1960-64); Instructor Political Science, Trinity University, San Antonio (1966-67); Conservation Information Systems, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington 1968; Director Manpower Planning NYC Human Resources Administration (68-71); Assistant Vice President First National City Bank, NYC (72-77) Vice President City Bank (78-86), AMEV Assets Management Inc. NYC (86-88); President Mortgage Adv. Svcs. Inc. (188-99); trustee United Adult Ministries (90 - ), Member executive committee (99- ), chair finance committee (99- ); trustee First Presbyterian Church NY (95-98), president (97-98), ruling elder (02 - ); Trustee NYC Presbytery (96-98), treasurer (98-02); member steering committee, Presbyterian Co-moderator (01 - ); board of directors YWCA, NYC (80-85); Trustee, Presbyterian Synod of the Northeast (02-). On Feb. 8. 2003 plan to marry Steve Michelman, Harvard Law '57.
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Class of 1953
Naumann , Sally		1953		After Wellesley I worked at the Air Force Cambridge Research Lab in Boston and at Hanscom Field. I was involved with a group working on various types of high frequency surface-mounted antennas and resonant modes of cubic and spherical YIG crystals used for delay lines. At Hanscom, I was introduced to the earliest of computers. We had the AFCRL computer which, I believe was a predecessor of Whirlwind. Later the Lab bought a mainframe IBM computer and everyone moved on to FORTRAN. While at the Air Force lab, I took courses at Northeastern University and continued after my son was born until I received my master's degree in physics. After that I was at home with my children for 17 years putting on puppet shows, playing the piano and generally working with kids and family. Seventeen years after I left Hanscom and went to Lincoln Labs, I was amazed to find that FORTRAN was still a popular language although much expanded. I have been retired since 1996 from MIT Lincoln Lab where I worked as assistant staff in an antenna group. I did a lot of computer programming, using FORTRAN, Matlab, C and various other languages.
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Class of 1952
Groom Bray, Estel		1952
Davidson Schallenberg, Jean		1952		After graduating, I went to Harvard Graduate School of Education for a M.Ed. in elementary education. Most of my time since then has been spent with family, raising two children, enjoying 47 years with the same husband and teaching elementary school (various grades between 1 and 6). I also ran a math enrichment lab. My very rusty physics was brushed off last year helping my high school grandson with his studies. Challenging, but fun.
Birins Williams, Astra		1952		Medical Research on human thyroid at MGH (52-54), radiation Damage in rats/mice at Argonne Cancer Research Hospital (54-59), energy levels of -mesons in Department of Physics, University of London (60). While in Kyoto, Japan (64-65), I tutored Japanese High school students. From 1973 to 74 while in Stockholm, I assisted in the rehearsals of young musicians (including my sons) in chamber music. Since we moved to Knoxville, I have been active in Amnesty International group at the University of Tennessee.
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Class of 1951
Robinson Higgins, Elizabeth	send	1951		Worked at Sperry Gyroscope on Long Island, Bulova R&D in Queens, Space Technology in California which became Ramo-Woolridge (now TRW) where I was involved in thermal design of spacecraft and then analysis and predictions for missiles and reentry vehicles. Married in 1986 and retired from TRW with glee after 27 years there.
Skilling Jeffrey, Susan		1951		I worked as a Lab Technician for American Cyanamid and at Harvard Medical School. I got married and raised a family, four sons and one daughter. I returned to the work force in 1974 at New Jersey Medical School where I worked for a physician in the Preventive Cardiology Department. I was Clinic Coordinator and Researcher for large clinical research trials, funded by NIH dealing with risk factors for heart disease. My duties involved supervision and training of technicians and ascertaining that data collection was complete and accurate. I also helped to coordinate and administer several drug studies. I retired in 1989. My husband and I are now spending as much time as possible traveling and visiting grandchildren.
Loeffler, Barbara	send	1951		I went on to Mount Holyoke College where I earned a masters in chemistry in 1953. I worked in the Chemistry Department of Bell Telephone Laboratories from the summer of 1953 to the late spring of 1958. I "retired" to raise children (2 daughters) and never went back into laboratory work. Since that time I have worked, mostly at the hobby level, in freelance photography, newspaper feature writing and layout, and public relations for the local Girl Scout council (five years as a full time employee). Since about 1976, I've had a small home business in typesetting, graphic design, and printing. Much diversity, yes--but none of it directly pertaining to physics. I gained a great deal from training I received at Wellesley--in terms of learning to think clearly.
Richey, Frances		1951		As to what I've been doing since graduation, it's a long biography. I am writing websites. You can see what I am doing by looking at wellesley.edu/alum/classes/1951/ also www.richeydesign.com, and the MIT club of New Mexico. I went to MIT and UCLA for graduate work. Lately I've been traveling - twice to China. I "retired" in 1989 from being a patent agent and searcher and writing software and moved from the Washington DC area to New Mexico. Before that I was working on military contracts studying nuclear weapons effects. Actually getting involved in patent research work was a lot more fun. My clients were IBM, lawyers, and investors, particularly during the court fight over the laser patent (the wrong guy won). I was lucky to be just down the hall from Ted Maiman at Hughes Research Labs when he "got" the ruby laser. Turned out Charlie Townes had miscalculated the ruby spontaneous emission probabilities, and Ted had the temerity to check up on him.
Harter Webster, Kathanne	send	1951		Worked for Professor Hunt at Harvard doing library research in underwater Sonar for 18 months before getting married. I did little in physics afterwards, except fix everything around the house. I did love my major. It trained my mind to be to totally organized, and rigorous, which has been a boon to me all of my life.
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Class of 1950
Ginsburgh, Elgie	send	1950		After graduation, I worked for the summer at Polaroid for their Spectrophometric Research Lab, then 5 years as a mathematician on the Division of Industrial cooperation with semi-faculty status at MIT''s Joint Computing Lab. I left to have my first child, but continued to work at home for the Acoustics Lab as data was collected on a project begun before I left. After my third child, I worked half time jobs: first as a mathematician for Harvard College Observatory, billing secretary for my local Visiting Nurses, then clerical assistant for a district salesman with Morton Frozen Foods. I have been a docent for the Museum of Science in Boston since 1987, volunteering for the 3-4 month traveling Special Exhibits, for Special Events like Astronomy Day or kids Invention Display weekend and my regular weekly shifts of 3 1/2 hours as a Physical Sciences Volunteer.
Carroll Huse, Majorie	send	1950		I worked as an engineer at General Electric and Sperry until laid off for being pregnant. There was also a year at University of Illinois when I was introduced to the Illiac. After 15 years at home, I took computer science courses. That led to 8 years of part-time word programming for engineering applications. The move to Vermont, when my husband retired, ended regular work for me. We ran a small orchard and did some tax preparation. My greatest contribution to physics is our younger son, a theoretical physicist at Princeton.
Molloy Martin, Mary		1950		I worked as a laboratory instructor at Wellesley College for quite a few years. After that I was treasurer of my husband's company. Then we retired to Maine. Now I keep busy with various volunteer things and my nine grandchildren.
Ancker-Johnson, Betsy		1950		Ph.D. Physics, Tuebingen University, Germany '53. Teaching positions: University of California, Berkeley (53-54), University of Washington (64-73). Research positions: Sylvania Microwave Physics (56-58), RCA David Sarnoff Lab (58-61), Bell Telephone (67-68), Boeing (61-70). Management positions: Boeing Company (70-71), Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce (73-77), Associate Director at Argonne National Laboratory (77-79), Vice-President, General Motors Laboratory for Environmental Activities (79-92), Chairman of the World Environment Center (88-94). Personal: Married to Professor Harold Johnson, have 4 children and enjoy Kayaking, Skiing, Mountain Climbing, Swimming and Scuba Diving.
Stewart Harris, Eleanor	send	1950
Logan Peak, Patsie		1950		I left Wellesley after my freshman year to care for my grandfather, who was nearly blind and deaf. He was a great guy and while I cared for him I met the man I married. I worked to put my husband through Medical School and four additional years of training. He never forgot what I had done for him. He loved the out of doors and taught me to also enjoy it. We have two children and three grandchildren.
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Class of 1948
Alden Little, Elizabeth		1948		Ph.D. in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from MIT in 1954 MA in anthropology , with a concentration in Archaeology and Geology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1985. Dr. Little has been the Nantucket Historical Association's Archaeological Field Director (1976-77), cocoordinator of Massachusetts Historical Commission surveys grant (1978-79), and Curator of Prehistoric Artifacts (1985-95). For the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, she has been a trustee (1979-96), president (1984-86), and editor of the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society (1986-96). Currently, she is a Research Associate at the R. S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy , Andover, MA, and Research Fellow in Archaeology at the Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket. Her husband, John D. C. Little, is an Institute Professor at MIT. They have 4 children and 7 grandchildren. (Elizabeth Alden Little passed away in August of 2003.)
Hunter Meyer, Ruth		1948		I attended the University of Geneva, Switzerland, with my good friend, fellow physics major and classmate Mary Lou Meurk. We took graduate courses in physics, and I met my husband Horst Meyer who was finishing his undergraduate degree in physics. Mary Lou went back to the U.S., but I stayed on and got a job at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, while Horst pursued his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich. After our marriage we spent four years at Oxford University and two years at Harvard before settling down for good at Duke University. My own activities consist mainly of involvement in community organizations. Among these are Chair, Board of Directors, Durham Health Partners; Chair, Board of Trustees, Durham County Hospital Corporation, N. C. AIDS Advisory Council Member, President of League of Women Voters of North Carolina.
Meurk Pollaczek, Mary		1948		After further education at the University of Geneva and New York University, I received certifications in Radiological Physics from American Board of California and American College of Radiology. My academic appointments were Clinical Faculty, University of California, San Francisco (1968-1992), Adjunct Professor, Department Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin (1981-81), Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, University of the Pacific (1975-1976). From 1968 to 1985, I served on a number of committees of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). I have a large number of publications and two patens on Intraoperative Electron Beam Therapy and System.
Spieler Pollak, Martyl		1948		After college I took a job with John Wiley & Sons in New York, Writing advertisements, fliers, jackets, etc. mostly for scientific books. I stayed with Wiley for about four years, until my first child was born. I took a few years off for two other children and then went to work for my husband in an investment firm. Around 1982 we wrote a book about American makers of wooden planes (woodworking planes) and this led to our starting a publishing company of our own. When my husband died six and a half years ago, I continued the business myself. Astragal Press has published over 100 books on old tools, trades, and technologies. Our staff consists of four women and we work very hard.
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Class of 1947
McQuiston MacNamee, Mary	send	1947		I married in 1945 and transferred to Barnard as my husband was entering Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. After graduating with a major in physics, I assisted a Physiology professor in research for two years until the first of four boys was born. When the youngest was nine, I began teaching middle school science and math. After my husband, a pediatrician, completed his studies to become a child psychiatrist, he accepted a position at Dartmouth Medical School. We bought a large house in Hanover and rented the third floor to Dartmouth students. I was the troubleshooter for any and all electrical, plumbing and heating problems.
Hoopes McKeown, Marilyn	send	1947		I worked on and off at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and still keep up with the work there even though I retired in 1993. I married in 1949 to a scientist at BNL. We spent a year at the University of Illinois, where I got a masters in physics. I returned to work after the birth of 4 girls (1954-1960), but found it impossible to keep up with the physics. I started mathematical analysis for the physicists, which eventually led to computer work I did until I retired. It meant going all the way from paper tape machines, then to magnetic tapes and punch cards on the mainframes, until finally the PC's. I got my 2nd masters in Applied Math at Stony Brook in 1977 so I could keep up with the data analysis for the physicists. I worked then in Solid State.
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Class of 1945
Harris, Bradley	send	1945
Capron Korb, Frances		1945		I went to Cornell Medical School followed by an Internship in Pediatrics at Bellevuein NYC. Then my husband and I moved to California and I worked for the Health Department in San Francisco working with school children and babies. I got trained in Family Therapy and then in Couple-Adult Groups in deep therapy. I spent about 20 years doing that. My present husband and I retired to a farm and grew flowers for drying. Ten years later we moved to Petaluma where I went back to Science and taught grammar school kids science - this was just plain fun. I am now volunteering for Hospice.
Malakos Pantos, Despina		1945		I worked for several years at the government Climatic Research Laboratory then situated in Lawrence, MA (now at Natick). I married and had two boys. I entered the work force again in my husband's manufacturing business, first in the office, then as assistant manager and finally found my niche as a designer. We manufactured luggage, sporting goods, and finally ended up in premiums designing and producing specific items for corporations for sales programs, give-a-ways or conventions. Science, particularly physics, has been a lifelong interest.
Aufsesser McCarthy, Jane	send	1945	3/03	Right after graduation in June 1945, I lived in NY with fellow 45'ers. My job for Division 6 of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) neatly combined my writing and physics interests. We collected reports related to wartime Sonar research from MIT, CIT, Naval Research Lab, etc. We checked the reports for accuracy, and pretty much rewrote them in more literate fashion. Our government contract expired when we finished and microfilmed the reports. (Microfilmed copies are now in the Library of Congress.) That was the end of my career in physics.
van Tassel Vanderkay, Barbara		1945		While I was at Sylvania doing classified research on transistors (then called sub-miniature radio tubes), I met my husband-to-be. After several years during which we owned and operated a hotel, I ended up in the research lab of Astro Pharmaceuticals where we tried to improve on Xylocaine by testing new drugs as soon as they were synthesized on frog sciatic nerves. My next job was as a traveling teacher for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. For nine years I went to various 5th grade classes in the Worcester school system and taught nature and conservation. I did volunteer work in Florida where we retired in 1968.
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Class of 1944
Preston Beck, Betty		1944		I taught Physics for a while at a high school in Manchester, NH. From '70 to '77, I was Director of Research for a NSF funded program (Unified Science and Math for Elementary Schools) at the Education Development Center in Newton, MA. From '90-'98, I served as an instructor in the Physics Lab at Babson College. My husband, an ordained minister, and I have two sons, Charles and James.
Reese Vogel, Barbara	send	1944		I worked at the Radiation Lab at MIT during World War II and for a short time afterwards. We moved to Chicago where my husband taught at Illinois Institute of Technology. I received a MS in math there and started a family. I didn't use my physics background in a paying job, but I think it helped with raising three children.
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Class of 1943
Hanson Leonard, Eleanor	send	1943
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Class of 1941
Wolfe Minck, Helen		1941
Boyden Oliver, Molly		1941
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Class of 1939
Park Haskell, Helen		1939
Baker Polster, Dorthea		1939
Tams Twitchell, Helen		1939
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Class of 1938
Wigglesworth MacKinnon, Helen	send	1938		Went to graduate school & then taught Biology in Winnetka, IL. Since moving to Louisville, have occupied myself in Community affairs and my family of four children, - now grown and six grandchildren. My husband is deceased. I read extensively, belong to three book groups, used to play a lot of tennis, now bridge. My hero is E. O. Wilson, Evolutionary Biologist.
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Class of 1937
Chapin Anderson, Elizabeth		1937
Lincoln, J. Virginia		1937

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