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I randomly picked up a book from 1958 today: The Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Radio Astronomy Issue. It includes biographies of the contributers, 70 in all, 4 of them women. Two of those women went to Goucher College, which was then a women's college (coed in 1986), and one later taught at Wellesley. Here are their biographies:
"Nannielou H. Dieter was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, in 1948, from Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. During her junior and senior summers, she was Lydia S. Hinchman Fellow at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, MAss. From 1958 until early in 1951, she worked in the Gravity and Astronomy Section of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. From 1951 until 1955, she worked in the Radio Astronomy Branch of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In 1955, she went to the Harvard University Graduate School."
"Helen W. Dodson (Mrs. E. L. Prince) was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1905. She received the A.B. degree from Goucher College in 1927, the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, and the Sc.D. (Hon) degree from Goucher College. She was on the faculty of Wellesley College from 1932 through 1945; a staff member at the Radiation Laboratory, M.I.T., from 1943 through 1945; and a member of the faculty of Goucher College from 1945 through 1950. From 1947 to the present time, she has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she is professor of astronomy at the McMath-Hulbert Observatory. She has been engaged in research on solar flares, prominences, solar radio-frequency emission, and solar-terrestrial relationships. Dr. Dodson is a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi."
PS-- Hello! I'm Melon, and I graduated from agnesscott in 2000.
"Nannielou H. Dieter was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, in 1948, from Goucher College, Baltimore, Md. During her junior and senior summers, she was Lydia S. Hinchman Fellow at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, MAss. From 1958 until early in 1951, she worked in the Gravity and Astronomy Section of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. From 1951 until 1955, she worked in the Radio Astronomy Branch of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. In 1955, she went to the Harvard University Graduate School."
"Helen W. Dodson (Mrs. E. L. Prince) was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1905. She received the A.B. degree from Goucher College in 1927, the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, and the Sc.D. (Hon) degree from Goucher College. She was on the faculty of Wellesley College from 1932 through 1945; a staff member at the Radiation Laboratory, M.I.T., from 1943 through 1945; and a member of the faculty of Goucher College from 1945 through 1950. From 1947 to the present time, she has been on the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she is professor of astronomy at the McMath-Hulbert Observatory. She has been engaged in research on solar flares, prominences, solar radio-frequency emission, and solar-terrestrial relationships. Dr. Dodson is a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi."
PS-- Hello! I'm Melon, and I graduated from agnesscott in 2000.