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Rtmlnine Success in Man's Field

This Lady Knows Her Rockets

Mrs. Sidney L. Simon (Dorothy Klalne Martin, Ph.D. '45) is termed "the most important woman in space science and possibly the most important lady scientist in the country" in the November 14 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. i The 39-year-old chemist is "up to her lipstick in rockets, missiles jand other space vehicles," Roul iTunley writes in an article entitled "The Lady Knows Her Rockets." j "Doctor Dorothy," as she is palled to distinguish her from her husband, also a doctor-scientist, is echnical assistant to the president f the Avco Corporation at And?er, Mass. She checks out ideas and profits for the non-scientist head of le corporation and advises him on leir feasibility and does indeendent thinking in the realm of ure science. Much of it is con'Doctor Dorothy' erned with missiles and antinissiles and her particular field her husband in switching jobs over the years. Her boss, James R. Kerr, 3 propulsion. says: The Post quotes an associate: "It may well be that when the |'When a man lands on the moon history of the twentieth century fn, say, ten years' time, Doctor is written, the crux of Dorothy Dorothy, if she isn't there already, Simon's contribution will not be ]vill probably have done some of so much in helping people get into ;he fundamental thinking behind space and hop from planet to the work in getting him there." planet, important as that will be, , More remarkable, she has risen as in proving that women can -be to the top in her field while still as effective as men in a man's remaining feminine and following field and still remain women."

SUPERVISES FILTERS: Mrs. Elaine Schapiro has joined Cont r o l Electronics Co., Huntington Station, N . Y., as supervisor of the filter engineering department. For the past three years Mrs. Schapiro was a project leader at Avien Inc., New York,

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December, Volume XX 1963 Number 3

Charter for University of Illinois student section, Society of Women Engineers, was officially presented by Mrs. Dee M. Holladay (left), chairman, Chicago section, to Patricia A . Martin (seated center), Villa Park, at meeting on UrbanaChampaign campus. Kathryn A . Miller (seated right), Fairfield, is vice president; Sandra G . Collins (standing cent e r ) , Collinsville, secretary-treasurer; and Miss Grace: Wilson, associate professor of general engineering, adviser. Though this chapter started in I960, official charter presentation was delayed. The national society has 16 local and I I student sections over the nation. University of Illinois has 32 coeds enrolled in engineering at Urbana-Champaign.