Sethanne Howard was the first woman to get a bachelor's degree from UC Davis Physics. In this seminar she discusses the opportunities and problems of a peripatetic path to a PhD and afterward. Her path starts with a degree in physics from UCD in 1965 and then moves to the science of astronomy, the oldest science. She was privileged to be the next to last astronomical assistant (not a night assistant) at Lick Observatory. Along the way she had great mentors (all male) who guided her path to the PhD. They allowed her freedom to pursue a productive path. She will discuss what it is like to move from position to position over the years, teaching, researching, and engaging in EPO. She will include some of the problems of being a scientist who is female in the 1960s. She parlayed her membership in the AAS/DDA (Division of Dynamical Astronomy) into a job at the US Naval Observatory inn Washington DC. Now retired she continues her EPO work. Her book on 4000 years of women in science - *The Hidden Giants* - is available from Amazon. She still maintains a website for children on the history of women in science. http:
www.4kyws.ua.edu
