I was pleased when CIO Ravi Ravishanker told me his plan to unveil a blogging platform to the Wellesley College community. I had been thinking for some time about how a President’s blog could help me communicate with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students. I am happy to have a new medium for this kind of dialogue.
This blog will give me the opportunity to tell you about important and/or interesting things that are going on at the College. It will also allow me to tell you about the things that I am thinking about, worrying about, or happy about. I hope that some of you will suggest topics that you would like to see in my blog. Now or in the future, leave me a comment here, or send an email to kbottomly@wellesley.edu.
I’m looking forward to connecting with the College community in a new and interactive way!
I was most interested in “The Science Tradition” piece in the Spring issue. I graduated with a major in Physics at Wellesley back in 1945, and I remember my first job, at Chance-Vought in Connecticut, working with engineers on problems their “Corsair” plane was having with its folding wings (this was a high-speed plane designed to be transported on aircraft carrier ships, where space was limited,- hence the folding wings). Stresses in flight were sometimes causing the wings to tear at the hinges and drop off. The lab where I worked did “drop tests” and analyzed the results recorded by strain gauges glued onto the plane’s wings. Fascinating work, even though I didn’t have enough math to work as an engineer.