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Fwd: Remembering Dotty Bowe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen d Kranzer)
Mon Apr 9 20:13:34 2001
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:10:17 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Ellen d Kranzer <ccrazy@world.std.com>
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Subject: Fwd: Remembering Dotty Bowe
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:07:18 -0400
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She was our advisor for a long time (people other than me know the
definition of long...) I don't know if there's an alumni version of this
list, or something for alumni non-official announcements can go to...
Thanks! -Cathy
>From: Monica McConnell <monicam@mit.edu>
>Reply-To: Monica McConnell <monicam@mit.edu>
>To: AMITA@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Remembering Dotty Bowe
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:24:32 -0400
>
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>A Reception in Remembrance of Dotty Bowe
>When: Saturday April 21, 2001
>2 - 4 pm
>Where: Brown Living Room
>McCormick Hall, MIT
>320 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
>
>Dotty Bowe passed away in February, after years of quiet service to the MIT
>Community and to MIT women, in particular. Dotty became an assistant to
>Dean of Women, Emily Wick, in the early 1960s just as MIT made a commitment
>to increase the number of women students. The two of them championed not
>only boosting female enrollment but also making MIT a more hospitable place
>for women in general. As part of that effort, she supported the Association
>of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) in launching a vigorous recruiting network for new
>women students.
>
>In the early 1970s, she worked with MIT women faculty and staff to start
>The
>Women's Forum, a lunchtime discussion group that created a valuable network
>for MIT women. Dotty also led the effort of the Women's Independent Living
>Group (WILG) to establish its residence. Later she was instrumental in
>starting the Oral History Project, now part of Women's Studies activities
>under Prof. Margery Resnick, gathering the oral and written history of
>women
>at MIT. She was active in fund-raising for the Ellen Swallow Richards
>Professorship, named for the first woman to graduate from MIT. The Alumni
>Association selected her as an honorary alumna of MIT in 1984.
>
>Her interest in women extended to the employees of MIT as well. She worked
>to increase their numbers in administrative staff positions and for the
>inclusion of everyone in the MIT Directory. She was also a longtime member
>of the board of directors of the Quarter Century Club. After taking early
>retirement, Ms. Bowe and Walter L. Milne were asked to investigate how to
>reach out to MIT's retired population of about 3,000 to keep them involved
>with the Institute. They formed the Association of MIT Retirees in 1994.
>The
>organization now has an active membership of some 600 and offers a program
>of seminars and trips open to all retirees.
>
>During her years at MIT, she accumulated many friends who remember the way
>she touched their lives. Join us in remembering a very special part of our
>legacy.
>
>Note that the Reception is the same day as the 25th Anniversary WILG Alum
>Dinner so that any WILG alums in town for the dinner may also attend the
>Reception.
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