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WIT Decade 1970

 
 
1970
· Barbara Boyle becomes IBM's first program manager for women's programs.
· Women join the IBM Executive Resources Program for the first time.
· Anne Rawson becomes IBM's first female branch manager.
· Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, who would later become IBM's second female vice president, is the first woman to participate in the White House Fellow Program.
· Lynn McDonough - Australia's first Educational Service Representative (ESR).
· Betty Golsteon is the first woman to earn an Engineering degree from San Jose State and works as the only female engineer in San Jose.
· Janice Lourie is the first IBMer to receive Plateau Invention.
 
1971
Patricia Harris  

Patricia Harris joins the IBM Board of Directors. She is the first black woman to serve on the Board.

 
· Peggy Givens is promoted to manager in manufacturing on a non-preferred shift becoming the first woman to do so.
· Libby Wareham is promoted to manager at the Dayton/Princeton site becoming the first woman site manager.
 
1972
· IBMs first international opinion survey was conducted by Gillian Purcer-Smith of World Trade Headquarters.
 
1974
· Dorris Isaacs of IBM's Los Angeles office becomes the company's first black female systems engineering manager.
· Cindy Olivett joins IBM East Fishkill Patent Drafting department. One of 20 patent drafters in IBM's United States operations, she is the first women to hold that position.
 
1976
· IBM's Dr. Irene Greif is the first woman to earn a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
· IBM became an official SWE corporate member.
 
1977
Office personnel with an IBM System/34 data processing system in 1977.  

Office personnel with an IBM System/34 data processing system in 1977.

 
1978
An IBM General Systems Division marketing rep calls on one of her customers in New Jersey in 1978.  

An IBM General Systems Division marketing rep calls on one of her customers in New Jersey in 1978.

 
 
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