Leanne Henry:
CLASS OF 1978
Shaler Area High SchoolClass of 1978
Pittsburgh, PA
Leanne's Story
After graduating from Shaler Area High School, I went to Carnegie Mellon University and got a B.S. degree in Chemistry. Then, I got a M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Pitt. After graduation, I went into the USAF and served for 21 years as a physicist, retiring as a Lt Col. During my military career, I was stationed at Wright Patterson AFB, OH; the US Air Force Academy; Hancom AFB, MA; West Point; the Pentagon; and Kirtland AFB, NM. I managed to have a fairly techni...Expand for more
cal career and upon retirement, got a civilian job as a scientist in Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. Basically, I get to do science every day and work in the area of lasers and optics. In addition, I've gotten to interact with foreign scientists from various countries to include Russia. Since I left graduate school, I've been to Germany, England 2x, Austria, South Africa, and Russia 5x. Russia, is of course, the most interesting country of all.
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