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From: ayers@Alliant.COM (Susan C. Ayers)
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Subject: RE: Women on the net
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Date: 17 Feb 89 15:07:04 GMT
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>...How about a local survey of sucessful women in this newsgroup:
>.........Mentors.....Parents...

My career has been quite sucessful so far, I am quite pleased at the
distance covered in my 23 years of computers/engineering and management.
I am 42, manager of research/scientific marketing for a supercomputer
company... I travel extensively to Europe and Asia, visit and lecture
at notible Universities and research labs...meet visionaries that push
the boundries of technology...challanging and very educational in what
I learn and discover.

Mentor's, fortunate to say I have had many...presently two. A man in
Washington DC on staff to Baker, who shares his motivational, and management
skills with me....the other a close woman friend, a few years younger, but
is wise and talented in the art of technical selling, we are equally strong
in different areas...we cross mentor each other.

My grandmother most influenced my life...she was a strong,fiercly independent
woman, who came from Russia. In her youth, she came from the Steppe's, her
family and group lived on horseback, moving, grazing,and trading horses
over the Russian Georgia plaines.  As a child, she taught me to be self
sufficent, industrious, responsible and creative...in essence, my first
Mentor.

Computers...we had none when I was studying for my BSEE in the 60's. I
was the only woman EE to graduate my class...with a professor that told
me my goals were to marry and engineer, not be one.  I wish he lived so
that I could have shown him my 2 patents and many technical papers. He
might have been amazed and proud of my reluctance to quit, given his
opinion of my future.

	Susan Ayers		Alliant Computer Systems Corp.
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