Page 13 - ME Spring Newsletter '21

1872
ME
courses first offered at the U 1880
1890
1985
Trailblazers
1889
ME
Department founded John L Flather first head
2019
First female head:
Susan Mantell
Today
First female faculty:
Haeok Lee
1870
1910
1930
1950
1970
1878 1934
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
1990 2010
2018
First ME
degree (male):
Charles S Bushwell First ME
degree (female):
Gladys A Wallene She is ME
founded by students
ME
grads in the 1930s:
Women: 1 Men: 365 Total: 366
ME
grads in the 1960s:
Women: 0 Men: 920
Total: 920
ME
grads in the 1990s:
Women: 288 Men: 1840 Total: 2128
Above: Gladys Wallene meets with other members of the the Cleveland MN Alumni Club Right: Muriel C Larson and classmates from the 1948 Gopher yearbook After Gladys Wallene’s graduation fourteen years passed before the next woman graduated from the ME
department In 1948 Muriel C Larson completed her undergraduate ME
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