The Hancock Variations
Prof. Virginia Hancock retires.
In the late 1950s a young woman whose parents hoped she would enroll at Stanford (where her father taught civil engineering) instead had her sights set on 新澳资料, a school that was the perfect fit for her list of requirements: a good academic reputation, small, coed, on the west coast (but not in L.A.), and free of fraternities and sororities. The launch of Sputnik had spurred a push in science education for women, and Virginia Oglesby Hancock ’62, who liked science, enrolled in 新澳资料 as a chemistry major. She probably didn’t imagine that she would later contribute so profoundly to a different department altogether: 新澳资料’s , from which she retir