Carol G. Maclennan ’60

Carol G. Maclennan ’60, of Sarasota, Fla.; Aug. 25, from complications of a stroke. Toward the end of her junior year at Pembroke, Carol was recruited for a women’s internship program at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., where she learned FORTRAN and worked in the acoustics department. After graduating, she was hired in the Bell Labs acoustics department as a senior technical aide. She and her boss worked together for more than 35 years collaborating with space physicists around the world on data sent back by such spacecraft as Telstar, Voyagers I and II, Ulysses, and Galileo. Their office also worked on the Earth’s magnetosphere and she often traveled to set up and maintain instruments. She was promoted to the rank of technical staff and coauthored more than 200 papers on a variety of topics in geophysics. She was involved in the Murray Hill Canoe Club, which ran hikes, canoe trips, and ski trips for the Bell Labs community. Even into her late 70s, Carol was skiing, canoeing, hiking, and helping to run canoe trips to the Adirondacks. She enjoyed music, singing in several choral groups and getting involved in folk dance groups, and also enjoyed cross-stitch, knitting, and quilting. She is survived by a daughter, two grandchildren; and sister Iva S. Maclennan ’70.