The February SWE Meeting will be held at the EMC Corporation at Hopkinton and will feature Dr. Jane Lancaster, the author of the biography 'Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Life Beyond Cheaper By the Dozen'.

Lillian Moller Gilbreth was Honorary Member Number One of the Society of Women Engineers, but the general public knows little of her life beyond being the mother of twelve rambunctious children in the book 'Cheaper By the Dozen'. After a quiet and protected childhood, she went to college, and started a doctorate'very unusual for a woman in 1900. Her studies were interrupted by marriage to Frank Bunker Gilbreth and the arrival of babies, roughly one every fifteen months. Both Gilbreths were early followers of Frederick Winslow Taylor, the 'Father' of scientific management, and Lillian collaborated with her husband on their pioneering time and motion studies. She resumed her academic work, and earned a PhD from Brown between her seventh and eighth babies. After Frank's death in 1924 Lillian continued their work, becoming one of the best-known women in America. She put all her children through college and finally retired 'on doctor's orders 'in 1968, at age ninety. In this illustrated lecture, her biographer Jane Lancaster shows early photographs of the Gilbreths, their family and their work, and tells the full story of one of the first women to 'do it all.'

Dr. Lancaster will have copies of her widely praised biography of Lillian Gilbreth available for signing. RSVP: by Tuesday February 7, 2005