Thea Drell Hodge (November 8, 1922 – March 3, 2008) was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a cofounder of the Minneapolis chapter of the Association for Women in Computing. Hodge was a pioneer for women in computer science and mentored many women in the field.
Thea Drell Hodge | |
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Born | Theresa E. Drell November 8, 1922 |
Died | March 3, 2008 Menlo Park, California, U.S. | (aged 85)
Burial place | Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Hunter College |
Occupation | Computer scientist |
Spouse | Philip G. Hodge |
Children | 3 |
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Theresa E. Drell was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Tully Drell and Rose White. She attended Antioch College in Ohio, where she met her husband, Philip Gibson Hodge, and graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College in New York City in 1946. She married when she was 20 years old.[1]
Hodge worked at New York University from 1943 to 1944, then spent 1960–1967 at Illinois Institute of Technology. She headed computer centers and supervised staff working in Illinois and Minnesota. From 1967 to 1968, Hodge worked at the University of Chicago. Hodge was hired by Northwestern University in 1968, before moving to the University of Minnesota in 1971, where she worked in departments at Cray Research and the university until her retirement in 1990.[2]
She and Philip Hodge had three children.[1]
She died March 3, 2008, in Menlo Park, and was buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California.[3][4]