Ada Lovelace Day: Remember a Woman who Inspired You
My friend Charlotte recently sent me a reminder of October 7's special significance: it's Ada Lovelace Day. Today, you are invited to recall and acknowledge a woman who was a positive influence on you, inspired you.
Here's a blurb about it: "This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today. Write a blog post, record a podcast, film a video, draw a comic, or pick any other way to talk about the women who have been guiding lights in your life. Give your heroine the credit she deserves!" You can read more at www.findingada.com.
I'll share something about Ann Lacy, my genetics professor at Goucher College. Ann was brilliant and demanding, but also supportive. She always expected our best, and if we didn't come up with it, she expressed disappointment. When we did our best, we got approval. When Ann retired, Goucher had a big party for her and about a hundred women she had mentored came back to Goucher to honor her, to speak about their current science, to reminisce, and to give her a farewell hug. Several of her scientific friends from Johns Hopkins and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory also came to the event.
One of the things that inspired us was how clearly Ann Lacy was still a part of the scientific conversation, although she was teaching and doing her research at Goucher College with all undergraduates, no PhD students or postdocs. Back in those days, Ann had a technician who was paid from her NSF grant, and she continued her studies on the Neurospora crassa Td locus (tryptophan synthetase A and B both in one protein). I remember when one of the Johns Hopkins professors was writing a genetics text and he came out to confer with her about her data and to get her help in constructing a diagram of the gene. She often took us along to events at the Baltimore-Washington Molecular Biology Club or to nearby American Society for Microbiology meetings. There, she introduced us to the scientists she knew, which proved helpful when we were looking for graduate mentors. And she published her work regularly. She knew it was research and not just teaching, although mentoring us as we learned to ask research questions and design experiments, to college data and analyze it, and to write it up meant a lot to her too. She was probably the toughest editor I've ever had, although years later I wrote a textbook with Macmillan, using a lot of my knowledge from her classes as a foundation.
So, celebrate Ada Lovelace day by pointing out one of your female mentors, or if you don't see this until later, when Oct 7 has passed, still chime in. It's never too late to celebrate our heritage.
cheers,
Laura Hoopes
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Hi Marion,
Wow, you really faced a woman-desert! I hope the FF role didn't get too onerous all those years. I've had a few women I almost took a class with and did not, that I've regretted missing. But we have to live forward; time's arrow and all that. I love your attitude, still wanting to encourage young women scientists/mathematicians.
best,
Laura
Laura,
Mary Sunseri was a freshman calculus teacher at Stanford. She was the only one of the math faculty without a PhD (although very late in life she completed her dissertation). I never had her for class, since I took honors calculus, and only long after I graduated (almost about the time she passed away) did I realize that whe was willing to offer mentorship to women. The concept was foreign to me as an undergrad, and since she wasn't a full faculty member I (stupidly) overlooked her.
I can't think of another woman faculty in the math, physics, or engineering schools I attended. Nor were their any where I worked for most of my career (downside of a small company). At work I was the "FF" as you term it.
Marian
Hi Helen,
Yes, I recall Beazy from Yale and UCSB and she once came and spoke at Occidental College while I was professor over there. She used a slide from my one marine ecology paper! It happened to be on Gonyaulax, but it was a stretch. Kind of fun for my students, though, that she cited me. I recall visiting her in Santa Barbara and am sorry to hear Paul has died.
cheers,
Laura
Hi Marian,
I'd be very surprised but also pleased if phys sci, math, and engineering women spoke up for women mentors. I had a great woman math teacher in high school, a Miss Whitlesey. She was tough but all the students appreciated how much she loved math and really could explain it six ways until almost everyone got it. I'd bet she inspired some people.
My bio subject Joan Steitz had a terrific math prof at her high school and she told me the same woman also taught the current head of the US Geological Survey, a woman scientist too. So high school math teachers can be pertty important! Did you have any women for math or sci at all?
cheers,
Laura
Wow! Beazy Sweeney! Yes! A wonderful woman and a wonderful scientist, with 4 talented kids, too. Her second husband, Paul Lee, died this spring. I was a scientist of several yrs by the time I connected with Beazy at UCSB, so she was a wonderful colleague and friend to me.
I became a biochemist on account of my hi school chem teacher, Ms. Lindgren, I believe, who taught us from a college chem text by Sienko and Plane, and thought we were always going so slowly. I learned a lot from her. My mother says she had a PhD and had been an industrial chemist.
Laura
I would be interested to see if you hear from many women in physical sciences and engineering about women mentors. I fear that they are far too few, even today.
Marian
A lot of people benefitted from Harriet Creighton at Wellesley. You know she worked with Barbara McClintock on the experiment in corn that showed genes and chromosomes are inherited together. She was, like Ann Lacy, both demanding and full of positive expectations for our understanding. She was my best female mentor. I never had a woman in grad school.
I had Ann Lacy too. Thanks for reminding me how carefully she held us to strong standards, while always maintaining that we COULD do it. Her confidence let to my own confidence. Thank you, Ann Lacy!
Hi Small Sci Woman,
Yes, Beatrice was a lovely person and she was indeed someone who never thought, "Is this person I'm talking with worth talking science with?" Some of the profs were always assessing that worthiness factor, and when a woman tried to talk science, they slid aside and wouldn't really chew over the details.
cheers,
Laura
Hi Laura,
I think you and I shared some mentorship by Beatrice Sweeney, brilliant scientist who studied red tide organisms among others. She was very easy-going but when she got talking about science, her eyes would sparkle and her mind would function a light speed. I always felt like she had an extra mental gear that I was lacking, but I loved seeing her get so into what she was thinking about. She was always ready to talk science with anyone, and that made her a great friend for a woman scientist.
