Great Name Choice

While not a Calhoun College alumnus, I do appreciate that a name change is jarring for some.  However, I want to say that I am delighted with the choice of Grace Murray Hopper.  I met her once, near the end of her life, when she spoke to a computer group in the Boston area.  She was an important pioneer in the field.  President Salovey’s letter described some of her accomplishments but left out some.  She programmed a solution to the “implosion problem” for the Manhattan Project, running on a very primitive digital computer.  She started and headed the software department of the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation, which developed the Univac computer.  When I saw her she was wearing her US Navy uniform (retired), of which she was very proud.