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Achievements in science highlighted in 1996
Aetna calendar of African-American history
HARTFORD, Conn.
. Someone told Shirley Jackson
that “colored girls should learn a
trade.” Jackson decided her trade
would be physics, and went on to
become the first African-Ameri
can woman to earn a doctorate
from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. For Jackson, who
currently heads the U.S. Nuclear
.Regulatory Commission, pursu
ing her curiosity was more impor
tant than honoring someone’s iim
. ited expectations of her potential.
That quality unites all of the
x individuals featured in “The Pow
er of Discovery, The Challenge of
History,” Aetna’s 1996 Calendar
of African-American History. The
12 people profiled, like the Afri
jcan-American scientists, engi
neers, and inventors who came
before them, challenged anyone
,or anything that placed limits on
what they could achieve.
Sharing the spotlight:
•Robotics engineer
BartholomewNnaji, whose robots
; may someday perform surgery.
; ‘NASA engineer Christine
Darden, who is working on the
^development of an American
;made supersonic airliner.
•Former astronaut Brigadier
General Charles F. Bolden Jr.,
U.S.M.C., veteran of four space
shuttle missions.
. ‘Engineer Walt Braithwaite,
who developed the computer net
work used to design the Boeing
777 airliner.
•Carolyn Meyers, associate
dean for research and interdiscb
plinary programs for the College
of Engineering at the Georgia In
stitute of Technology. Meyers is
helping to develop engineering
Icurricula for the 21st century.
•Mathematician David
[Blackwell, professor emeritus at
[the University of California at
Berkeley.
•Civil engineer Susan Toler-
Carr, a project engineer at MCA
Recreation Services, Planning and
Development.
•Astronomer Benjamin Peery,
professor emeritus at Howard
University, one of only a handful
of African-American astronomers.
•lowa State University profes
sor Derrick Rollins, believed the
only person in the U.S', with a dual
appointment as a professor of
chemical engineering and statis
tics. The lowa State University
professor was awarded a five-year,
$500,000 Presidential Faculty
Fellowship from the National Sci-
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Answers
1. Gil Evans
2. Charlie Parker
3. Gil Evans
4. New York City
5. 1986
6. Nat Hentoff
7. Drums
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9. Nat Adderly
10. Blackwell
11. “Kim”
12. Lee Konitz
13. Shorty Rogers
14. Paul Desmond
15. Jazz at the Philharmonic
16. James P. Johnson
17. Bruce Drake
18. Sarah Vaughn
19. Arthur Blythe
20. Maria Ellington
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•Engineer and inventor Tony
March, who holds patents on three
electrical devices — two motor
control units for car seats and a
pull-down unit for automatically
closing car trunks.
•College senior and aspiring
surgeon Damon Tweedy, a
Meyerhoff Scholar at the Uni
versity of Maryland Baltimore
County.
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dar of African-American history
recognizes the outstanding con
tributions of black Americans in
fields such as business, politics,
athletics, medicine and entertain
ment. When the calendar was first
created in 1982, it was an in-house
project aimed at school children in
the Hartford area. The calendar’s
importance has since grown and
its scope and appeal have wid
ened. This year, more than 100,000
copies of the calendar will be dis
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interest in American history.
Each year, a specific theme is
selected for the calendar. Individ
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passion for their work in a given
discipline are chosen as represen
tatives of African Americans who
have made significant contribu
tions. Past calendars have fea
tured former U.S. Poet Laureate
Rita Dove, pioneer heart surgeon
Daniel Hale Williams, Spelman
College President Johnetta Cole,
businessman and publisher Earl
G. Graves, and tennis great Arthur
Ashe. Each has excelled in a given
area of expertise while overcom
ing some of life’s most difficult
obstacles.
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