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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Changing names after marriage - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 22:55:10 EDT
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uicsl!preece    Sep 28 10:57:00 1983

		  There are other reasons as well.  Professionally, I've
	been using "Bellovin" for 15 years or so; I don't propose to cancel
	whatever reputation I have by making it hard for people to associate
	the current me with the past me.
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This is a real problem. I've been involved in the indexing of the
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology for several years. 
In that time we have had to cross reference a number of prominent female
researchers whose names have changed by marriage and divorce. There's
no way the casual seeker after knowledge is going to tie those women's
work together into a single, reputation-building mass. At the very
least a woman with a professional reputation should USE her maiden name
as a middle name; if the positions were reversed I would probably try
to keep my own name. This does, however, lead to confusion in credit
matters, leases, introductions, and the like...

scott preece
pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece

[As context, my wife did take my name, but uses her maiden name as a
middle name; her sister used her maiden name for a long time, switched
just before divorcing, then kept the married name until she married
again (least resistance, i guess)]