By: Jon Spangler

Jon Spangler — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:16:22 +0000

I was raised by and have been surrounded by strong and inspiring women (my mother, my wife, my sister, my grandmother, my aunts, and many, many friends and colleagues) throughout my life, and I am deeply grateful to them all. Here are two examples:

Olga Reifschneider, my maternal grandmother, was one of the first women to work for the US Postal Service in WWI at the age of 16, and she was the only woman in a 1951 Desert Ecology class at the University of Nevada Reno when she got her BS in Botany.

My wife, Linda Hudson, was the first woman in several positions she held at AT&T and at Bell Laboratories, breaking the gender barrier in one of America’s most sexist corporate cultures.

Being surrounded by strong, smart, and capable women has most certainly made me a better man and a better human being.

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