Abigail Beutler:  

After graduating from Radcliffe and getting married on the same evening, I earned an MEd from BU. I decided I did not like teaching while doing the student teaching phase of that program!, We moved to Los Angeles and I worked in Aerospace Engineering as a research engineer, and had two children. My husband earned a Doctorate at Cal Tech, and we then moved to Ann Arbor, MI, where he had accepted a Professorship at the U of Mich. I worked as a Research Physicist at the Radio Astronomy Lab, part of the Electrical Engineering department, while getting an MS in Physics. The kids attended the University School through the 6th grade, and then went to public school. Meantime, another son put in his appearance. I transferred to the Electrical Engineering Department, where one of my responsibilities was to exam what happened to guided missiles on their descent, which developed into research on the upper atmosphere. This, in turn, sent me into developing a model of the Atmosphere of Mars, a...Expand for more