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                <text>Society of Women Engineers Oral History Project: Profiles of SWE Pioneers</text>
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                <text>Interviews of pioneering women engineers, across engineering disciplines, conducted to document the history of women in engineering from the 1930s to the present as well as the founding and development of SWE. This project was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers through generous funding provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund and managed by the Reuther Library. Both transcript and videotapes are available.</text>
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              <text>Evelyn Fowler was part of the small group of women who were the earliest members of SWE. She was a charter member of the New York Section in 1949, a founding member of SWE national in 1950, and a founding member of the Connecticut Section in 1954.

Fowler graduated from the Art School of Pratt Institute in 1942 and later returned to study chemical engineering she married an engineer. Upon gaining her bachelor's degree she went to work for her husband's company, the American Actuator Corporation of New York as a drafter and later secretary-treasurer.</text>
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