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Maryly VanLeer Peck
President, Polk Community College (1982–1998)
Dean of Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland
President, Chochise Community College (Douglas, Arizona)
Administrator, University of Guam
Graduate, UF Chemical Engineering doctoral program (1963)
Childhood and education, first woman to receive chemical engineering degree at Vanderbilt, establishing Society of Women Engineers UF chapter, experiences earning master’s degree in engineering at UF, pregnancy, receiving Ph.D. at UF (first woman to earn graduate degree in engineering from UF), working for Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, different views of female students at Vanderbilt and UF, juggling family and a career in Guam, attending UF, teaching chemical engineering to returning veterans, relationship with male faculty and administrators, Society of Women Engineers and the
Maryly VanLeer Peck scholarship, applying for job position at Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation (Boeing), interest in teaching, teaching position at Campbell College in North Carolina, reasons for move to Guam, operating school, job as administrator at University of Guam, president of Chochise Community College in Arizona, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at University of Maryland, first female to be president of a Florida community college, Polk Community College in Winter Haven, personal assets, advice to
women working in male-dominated field. November 6, 2003 |
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