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Thea Drell Hodge
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Theresa E. Drell
November 8, 1922 |
| Died | March 3, 2008 Menlo Park, California
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| Burial place | Alta Mesa Memorial Park |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Hunter College |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Spouse(s) | Philip G. Hodge |
| Children | Three |
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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.
Life and work
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.
Hodge worked at New York University from 1943–1944, then spent 1960–1967 at Illinois Institute of Technology. From 1967–1968, 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 until her retirement in 1990.
She died March 3, 2008 in Menlo Park, and was buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California.
Awards
- 2004: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services Hall of Fame
