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Blum is well known for her work in increasing the participation of girls andwomen in mathematics and scientific fields. She was instrumental in foundingthe Association for Women in Mathematics(serving as its Presidentfrom 1975 to 1978), the Math/ScienceNetwork and its ExpandingYour Horizons conferences for high school girls (serving as co-Directorfrom 1975 to 1981) and served as co-PI for the Mills Summer Mathematics Institutefor undergraduate women. At Carnegie Mellon she has been faculty advisor to theWomen@SCS and a member of thePresident's Diversity Advisory Council.
Dixie Koldjeski:
And in mental health, it was more specific; it was working with families. I did - when I was a practicing therapist, I did do some private practice stuff, you know, with individuals. My love has always been with families, probably because I come out of a large family and always had enjoyed the give and take of it and the fact that our family took in stray relatives like dogs who would come sometimes to spend the summer or to stay with us several months. Nobody thought anything about it. They just came and said they'd like a visit. But my memories of childhood were that we didn't - we were not rich; we had enough that we always could do it. And not until many, many years later did I realize that probably a great part of my life was shaped by something I had no knowledge - because my mother was a daughter, all of her brothers were sent to Duke, but girls did not go to college; but she loved reading and knowledge. My father was one of the first students that enrolled in Barton College - what is now Barton College - the old Atlantic Christian College. He and his cousin decided that's where they wanted to do. Now, I don't know, and I plan to find out - I don't know whether he ever graduated, but I do know that's where he at least went. But they had nine children; my parents had nine children, and we would come home from school and darned if we - we thought we left school behind, but as soon as supper was over and those dishes were washed and dried and the kitchen was swept, we were marched into the living room, and there my mother and father conducted another two or three hours of school. My father spoke beautiful English and language. My mother would improvise flashcards by cutting up boxes. We had spelling bees; we had contests. But by God, we learned English. We learned at home, and I think it was this great love of literature and history and all of that - somehow or another was sinking in our souls without our realizing it so that when I went into Mental Health, family was what I gravitated to, and I had a chance to study with what were considered some of the best family clinicians in the country, including a week of spending time - do you know who Bruno Bettelheim was?