I appreciated your story, “Strong Silent Types,” in the December PAW. Secretaries at Princeton have made numerous contributions over the years — including helping to keep a roof over my head. In 1970 my wife, Deborah Browning, was hired as a secretary at the Institute for Advanced Studies. The job could not have been more opportune, since she had just been fired as a systems analyst by the University’s Institute for Defense Analyses. The cause of her firing? Being married to a student — by definition a security risk!
I appreciated your story, “Strong Silent Types,” in the December PAW. Secretaries at Princeton have made numerous contributions over the years — including helping to keep a roof over my head. In 1970 my wife, Deborah Browning, was hired as a secretary at the Institute for Advanced Studies. The job could not have been more opportune, since she had just been fired as a systems analyst by the University’s Institute for Defense Analyses. The cause of her firing? Being married to a student — by definition a security risk!