Word: gaposchkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, professor of Astronomy, will be the first woman to occupy an open endowed chair at the University. Other appointments announced yesterday include two new members of the Board of Preachers to replace Frederick May Eliot, deceased, and Sidney Lovett, who resigned recently...
Educators are "passing the buck" by expecting the Natural Sciences program to fill the gaps of a student's inadequate scientific preparation, asserted Cecelia H. Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronmer and chairman of the Department. Substantial training in mathematics and physics for all students must begin in the secondary schools, she said...
Both Hynek and Mrs. Gaposchkin would require students, who are intellectually capable, to complete three years of algebra, as well as trigonometry and geometry. Furthermore, they would require a year of physics, which Hynek labelled as "basic to the understanding of all the sciences...
...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...