The ties that bind

When Michelle Blumberg accepts her MSc in cognitive neuroscience at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s this autumn, her 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Grammy,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Jean Tucker-Galipeau, will be cheering her on.

And no doubt reminiscing about her own graduation, an incredible 80 years before.

Jean, who turned 102 this year, is a member of Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�41, one of just a handful of women to graduate that year in mathematics and physics. She still has her yearbook, along with a shelf full of the math books she was awarded for having the top marks in her class.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�She카지노 게임 컬렉션�s an inspiration to everyone in the family,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Michelle, 24. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�That she was one of the first women to graduate in math and physics from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s is something that I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve always been very proud of. I tell my friends about her all the time.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Red, gold and blue runs in the family카지노 게임 컬렉션�s veins. Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s father, Robert James Tucker, graduated in Medicine in 1916. Her cousins were professors.

The family tradition was an important part of Michelle카지노 게임 컬렉션�s decision to come to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, first for a BSc in life science, and then continuing on for her master카지노 게임 컬렉션�s.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I카지노 게임 컬렉션�m very proud,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Michelle says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I can walk around campus and see that there are certain buildings, like Grant Hall, that are pretty much the same as they were back then.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I hear her talk about going to football games at Richardson Stadium 카지노 게임 컬렉션� I played soccer in that old stadium!카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Jean Tucker was born March 28, 1919, near Prescott, Ont., and grew up in the farming town of Paisley, on Ontario카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Bruce Peninsula.

The First World War had ended barely four months before, and her father was a veteran of that great conflict. In fact, her parents met at Grant Hall where they were both working to treat wounded soldiers.

Like many medical students, Robert had been excused from his studies to go overseas for the war. He served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in Egypt, tending the casualties of the disastrous Dardanelles campaign at the huge Abbassia military hospital outside Cairo.

He returned to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s after his service and graduated in the class of 1916.

Back in Paisley, Robert found his wartime knowledge of tropical medicine less useful than obstetrics. Jean tells her children tales of her father travelling in the dead of night through the snow in a horse-drawn cutter to deliver babies at isolated farmhouses. Country doctors were respected, but poorly paid.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�It was a hard life. People used to pay him in manure,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s daughter and Michelle카지노 게임 컬렉션�s aunt, Anne Galipeau. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�They카지노 게임 컬렉션�d literally dump it off in front of his house. Being a country doctor wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t a money--making affair.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

A loyal Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s graduate, Robert would work in his study and delegate Jean and her sisters to find out the latest football scores from his alma mater.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�He would always be saying to us, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Go get the score,카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션� Jean recalls, her memory still vivid. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�So we were always looking for the football scores from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s. And when we got the score we카지노 게임 컬렉션�d knock on the office door and tell him, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Yes! Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s won the football game.카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션�

When it came time for Jean to go to university, there was little doubt where she would study. She arrived in Kingston by train, and moved in with her aunt Ethel and her family at 404 Albert St., a house that still stands at the corner of Mack Street, opposite Victoria Park.

In 1937, Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s freshman year, Mac-kenzie King was prime minister and Canada was mired in the seven-th year of the Great Depression. It was the year the airship Hindenburg exploded in flames in Lakehurst, N.J., and aviator Amelia Ea-r-hart disappeared somewhere in the South Pacific. In Europe, Germany카지노 게임 컬렉션�s führer, Adolf Hitler, was making plans for the annexation of Austria, sowing the seeds of another world war. Jean dreamed of being a doctor like her father, but he advised against it.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I did sign up to go into medicine and I could have gone, but we didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have much money,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Well, we didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have any money.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�My father told me that medicine was too hard a life for a woman.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

It was an older cousin, Don Stewart, himself a professor at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, who steered Jean into science.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t know what to take and he said, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Why don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t you take math? You카지노 게임 컬렉션�ll need that.카지노 게임 컬렉션� So I did.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Jean was one of only three women in the class. The others 카지노 게임 컬렉션� Edna Cohrs and Marjorie Howie 카지노 게임 컬렉션� became lifelong friends.

Student life was very different from today. Like all students, Jean wore black academic gowns to class. One professor would greet his students each morning with 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Gentlemen, are we ready?카지노 게임 컬렉션� blatantly ignoring his female students.

Jean recalls one professor who would work across the blackboard, scribbling out equations with his right hand and erasing them just as quickly with his left. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�He카지노 게임 컬렉션�d say, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s obvious!카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션� she said, still chortling more than 80 years later.

Jean was a star student, winning awards for top marks in the class. She worked as a teaching assistant, marking papers mailed in by correspondence students.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�People could get a degree at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s without going. They카지노 게임 컬렉션�d mail in their answers and I카지노 게임 컬렉션�d mark them,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she says.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s just like this year,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Michelle adds. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s just like COVID.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

On weekends, Jean and her friends would go to dances in Ban Righ Hall. And always there was football. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We would never miss a football game,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she says.

The family카지노 게임 컬렉션�s ties are deep at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s. Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s cousin Don Stewart, who guided her into mathematics, was himself a math professor. His younger brother, Harold, was an electrical engineering graduate and lecturer who built an AM radio transmitter for the fledgling campus radio station, CFRC, making it a leader in Canadian radio broadcasting. Her sister, author and journalist Doris Tucker-Pennington (Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�43), was also an alumna.

One of Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s friends and tennis partners was Agnes Richardson, niece of Capt. George Taylor Richardson, a standout Golden Gaels athlete who was killed in action in France in 1916. Richardson Stadium was named in his honour.

(Agnes Richardson, of course, married William M. Benidickson and became Agnes McCausland Benidickson, the first female Chancellor of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, serving in that role from 1980-1996.)

When Jean graduated in 1941, her parents made the arduous journey from Paisley to attend. The Second World War was raging and the new grad found work in Toronto with the National Research Council helping in the war effort, studying submarine buoyancy.

After the war, she continued working at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto, using the school카지노 게임 컬렉션�s primitive computer and travelling to Boston and Harvard 카지노게임사이트 to use its more sophisticated machines.

She was hired by Harvey Gellman, one of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s early high-tech pioneers, to work for his company, DCF. As well as working on DCF contracts at the nuclear reactor site at Chalk River, Ont., Jean helped Gellman in his search for more powerful computers. One computer she helped procure was the room-sized, 2,500- kilogram IBM 650, the world카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first commercially successful computer.

Jean also taught math at schools in Rockland, Ont., outside Ottawa and for five years at Havergal College in Toronto before leaving the workforce in her 40s, when her daughters, Anne and Lynne, were born. Her husband, John Galipeau, died in 2015.

And still, four score years later, Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s love of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s remains. She reads every issue of the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Alumni Review from cover to cover. She still roots for a Golden Gaels football win.

In Jean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s lifetime, the world has changed in almost unimaginable ways. Today카지노 게임 컬렉션�s smartphones dwarf the old computers like the IBM 650 in power, if not in size. Though she worked shoulder to shoulder with men in Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s fledgling computer industry, she was almost certainly paid less: in those days, salary just wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t something you asked about.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Back then, it wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t common for women like her to go to school,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says her granddaughter, Michelle. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s something that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s always inspired me to go into academics.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I think, even today, a lot of women aren카지노 게임 컬렉션�t encouraged to go into maths and sciences. But that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s never been a feeling I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve had. I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve always felt encouraged to and I think that카지노 게임 컬렉션�s mainly because of her doing that so long ago. It never struck me that I couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t do it.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Does Jean think of herself as a pioneer? A trailblazer for women in science?

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Oh, I wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t say that,카지노 게임 컬렉션� she scoffs.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�She카지노 게임 컬렉션�s way too humble,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Michelle. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But everyone else knows how incredible she is.카지노 게임 컬렉션�