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“Demure” ???

“The U.S. government isn’t going to have women astronauts for 2000 years,” grumped one discouraged applicant, Mrs. Janett B. Trubatch of Los Angeles. “NASA thinks the American ideal is for women to marry, have kids, and stay home.” - 1967. “Demure” ???.

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“Demure” ???

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  1. “The U.S. government isn’t going to have women astronauts for 2000 years,” grumped one discouraged applicant, Mrs. Janett B. Trubatch of Los Angeles. “NASA thinks the American ideal is for women to marry, have kids, and stay home.” - 1967

  2. “Demure” ???

  3. “Yes, she was quite liberal and acknowledged none of the traditional social barriers, including those gender- or race-based.”

  4. KINGSTON, RI.Oct. 16, 2003. URI awarded $3.5 million NSF grant to advance women faculty in the sciences and engineering

  5. ADVANCE beneficiaries: Mark, first to use the new paid parental leave policy and Ellen, a hire partially funded by ADVANCE.

  6. “Thanks for doing this wonderful memorial in honor of someone who did so much for URI, and really put URI firmly on the path to supporting women scientists and fighting bias. I will really miss Janett!!”

  7. I remember Janett as an extremely kind person who always had something great to contribute to our book club discussions. It was a special event when we met at her lovely home on Narrow River. She had filled the house with fascinating art which said so much about her as a person engaged with the larger world.

  8. “She meant so much to me when she was here at URI - she gave so much to the Jewish community in South County, and to women engineers.”

  9. ADVANCE Fellows Kathleen Donohue, Rebecca Brown, & Yana Reshetnyak

  10. ADVANCE Fellows Yan Sun, MayraiGindy, & Katie Kelley

  11. ADVANCE Fellows Tatiana Rynearson, Becky Robinson, & Bethany Jenkins

  12. ”Janett was a great mentor. She did so much for so many here!”

  13. “She brought a breath of sanity and "can-do-it“- ness that URI sorely needed.”

  14. Janett saved me from the biggest frustration in my first year at URI. . . . I will miss her so much. In 2005, after I have prepared the NSF Career Proposal, the research office found that I was not eligible to submit this proposal because the Advance Fellow status was not considered as tenure-track by NSF. I was extremely frustrated until the problem was brought to Janett. My frustration magically went away, when I saw Janett, our vice provost,  making phone calls to several NSF program managers, explaining the situation for me, and providing the strongest support to my research. At that moment, I felt very lucky to be an Advance Fellow and what NSF thought about my status was not important any more. --- an ADVANCE Fellow

  15. “Janett was quite a force in our lives, wasn't she ..... We do have many great memories of her time at URI. Even though we might not have been quite ready for her, she surely made a difference in many lives ... in a very positive way.  I am going to miss her ... “

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