BE '62
I was an engineering student, one of very few women entering that field. We didn't realize that we were pioneers and paved the way for other women to more easily be accepted as engineers. I made friends, and I am still in contact with some of them. There were about 28 women who started in engineering. Another woman and I were the only two from that starting group that finished in 1962. She and I are still friends. One of my favorite teachers was Egon Brenner in electrical engineering. He was a very smart and good man. Mansour Javid was a very sweet and kind man as well. The head of the department around the time also stood out to me. I worked in the Electrical Engineering Department office as a student aide. My 'boss' was a secretary named Sadie Silverstein the driving force there. Anybody else who had any dealings with that department will remember her. The other guy that I adored was a technician that I knew because I worked there. His name was Nat Tillman, and I got to be friendly with him too. Before I graduated I had local job interviews both on and off campus. At that time there was an unwillingness to hire women except as technical writers. However that was the 'Sputnik' era so I was able to get a job in Los Angeles.