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Since last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
Cooking is Mrs. Gaposchkin's favorite homemaking task. She particularly likes to experiment with new recipes, declaring the pastime to be "just another form of reasearch." Mrs. Gaposchkin is also proficient at embroidering, knitting, and crocheting...
...girl, Mrs. Gaposchkin studied the violin seriously, and on occasions has played and conducted for the small orchestra at the Observatory. "The only career anyone ever urged me to take up was conducting," she admits...
...Gaposchkin firmly believes that a woman can combine successfully "either professional success and a family, or professional success and an active social life." But she doubts if any woman could be a success at all three, "unless she were a millionaire. I have to go home every night and fix dinner for my family," she adds...
When the University granted Mrs. Gaposchkin a full professorship, many of her students and colleagues felt that the honor was long overdue. She considers her promotion not so much a personal honor, but an indication of women's advance in all academic fields. She explains that she feels a particular responsibility to make a success of her new position in order to pave the way for other women with high aspirations...