Find A Grave contributor C Branscome has provided this information about Dorothy:
First Woman President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Daughter of Jacob and Tillie Bernstein, Russian immigrants. Received simultaneously both her bachelors and master's degrees in 1934 from University of Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University with a PhD in mathematics in 1939. Taught at Mt. Holyoke College, University of Wisconsin, University of California at Berkeley, University of Rochester (1943-1959). Taught at Goucher College for 21 years starting in 1959, chairing the department for 15 of the years. Co-founded the Maryland Association for the Educational Uses of Computers and introduced computers into the high school math curriculum in Maryland.
President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1979 to 1981, being the first woman to hold that office. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
After her retirement, she moved to Connecticut with her life companion, mathematical collaborator and Goucher colleague, Geraldine "Jerry" Coon.
First Woman President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Daughter of Jacob and Tillie Bernstein, Russian immigrants. Received simultaneously both her bachelors and master's degrees in 1934 from University of Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University with a PhD in mathematics in 1939. Taught at Mt. Holyoke College, University of Wisconsin, University of California at Berkeley, University of Rochester (1943-1959). Taught at Goucher College for 21 years starting in 1959, chairing the department for 15 of the years. Co-founded the Maryland Association for the Educational Uses of Computers and introduced computers into the high school math curriculum in Maryland.
President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1979 to 1981, being the first woman to hold that office. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
After her retirement, she moved to Connecticut with her life companion, mathematical collaborator and Goucher colleague, Geraldine "Jerry" Coon.
Find A Grave contributor C Branscome has provided this information about Dorothy:
First Woman President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Daughter of Jacob and Tillie Bernstein, Russian immigrants. Received simultaneously both her bachelors and master's degrees in 1934 from University of Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University with a PhD in mathematics in 1939. Taught at Mt. Holyoke College, University of Wisconsin, University of California at Berkeley, University of Rochester (1943-1959). Taught at Goucher College for 21 years starting in 1959, chairing the department for 15 of the years. Co-founded the Maryland Association for the Educational Uses of Computers and introduced computers into the high school math curriculum in Maryland.
President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1979 to 1981, being the first woman to hold that office. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
After her retirement, she moved to Connecticut with her life companion, mathematical collaborator and Goucher colleague, Geraldine "Jerry" Coon.
First Woman President of the Mathematical Association of America.
Daughter of Jacob and Tillie Bernstein, Russian immigrants. Received simultaneously both her bachelors and master's degrees in 1934 from University of Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University with a PhD in mathematics in 1939. Taught at Mt. Holyoke College, University of Wisconsin, University of California at Berkeley, University of Rochester (1943-1959). Taught at Goucher College for 21 years starting in 1959, chairing the department for 15 of the years. Co-founded the Maryland Association for the Educational Uses of Computers and introduced computers into the high school math curriculum in Maryland.
President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1979 to 1981, being the first woman to hold that office. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
After her retirement, she moved to Connecticut with her life companion, mathematical collaborator and Goucher colleague, Geraldine "Jerry" Coon.
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