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Th# Cedar Tlapld* Gazette: Sun., Sept. 15. 1963 ibolt;* AnAstronomy Field OffersfreWoman Equal Opportunity}Bv Elinor AhernThere are excellent opportunities for women in the field of astronomv, accord-ing to one of the nation’s leading feminine astronomers, Harriet H. Malitson of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard space flight center.She gave the keynote address Saturday night at the convention banquet of the “99’s”, international organi-7ation of women pilots meeting at Town House.“Right now NASA is conducting a recruiting campaign for aerospace technologists. men and women alike.’’ she explained in an interview Saturday. “It's a field inyelt;rotHeonlt;194BaIbuCOIcaifoiallefictherjcoiHARRIET MALITSONwhich women have equal op- anrf hysics while attending portunities with men.college inShe Went AlongGoucher more. 1IV3Joined in I960Balti- sa H 15-AJ“It was a woman scientist,Dr. Joslyn Gill of NASA,. “I had always been in-who suggested the observa-1 e r e s t e d in astronomy so tion flight over Canada dur- when I went back for my ing the sun's eclipse in July, master’s degree, I took it in Not only was her suggestion astronomy at the University accepted, but Dr. Gill went 0f Michigan.” along with Scott Carpenter.’’ she met her husband while Mrs. Malitson’s job is to working at the Bureau of c a observe the activity of the Standards and the Naval Re- ria radiation particles from the search Laboratory with coiSDf!sun and studying ways of wbich he is still associated, coipredicting when these solar In 19fio she joined NASA and coiflares will occur.’was assigned to the Goddard “We are striving to learn solar physics branch. coiBut she still takes courses toin astronomy. She’s enrolled S1T in a fall class at the Uni- h°as much as we can about the sun's activities before the moon shot which will he affected by them.” she said.The activity of the solarversity of Maryland.Would she like to go up in *° flares seems to be in 11-year a Space ship for observation iuicycles, Mrs. Malitson ex- purposedplained. As yet, however, no lt;There are so many pPO-’one can predict the exact p]p more qualified than jthiyear that will have the most she |jed or the least activity.This year, she went on,... ■ ■ a —a.i iii3 t, auc we nt uii, # |seems to bequiet and around'r 1*1 SOn6T UGlVGSECionise1965 should be a very inactive period.Our JobInto Law Books,Attains FreedomWlt;a••It’s our job to find a wayMINEOl ANY (AP)— to predict more accurately wmjam Woodbury, who'lt;*when the flares will occur. |studjed law jn ison and di One of the best women in hjs fjrs, conviction set ,this field, tn her opinion, is asid was freed r.-riday viDr. Helen Dodson ofwa...... from a second prison term. c*University of lichigan. convmced a judge heCollege freshmen who are shouldnlt;t haVe been sen. pi Interested in entering the tenced as a second offender. ff astronomy field should take The 38-year-old Negro as many physics and mathe- walked out of court a free ^ matics courses as possible man for the first time in 17 during their undergraduate years.years. Then, enroll in a col- ‘ He recalled how he was a c lege or university with a top troublesome, rebellious in- P astronomy department. mate at Dannemora prison “But you have to love as- in upstate New York until tronomy,” she cautions. “It’s one day the warden told him an exacting science. that, if he would stop fight-Mrs. Malitson, who has a ing, someone would take an son, 10. and a daughter, 7, interest in him. planned to major in French, Woodbury took him up on tl but switched to mathematics it. He began studying law tldfiT
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