Jane Davenport Fairbank

Background

Fairbank, Jane Davenport was born on August 21, 1918 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Daughter of Harold Edwin and Mildred (Foster) Davenport.

Education

Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Whitman College, 1939. Postgraduate U. Washington, 1940-1942.

Career

Science staff member Radiation Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1942—1945. Chairman Second Careers for Women, Stanford, California, 1970—1975. Chairman annual continuing education program Whitman College Senior Alumni College, 1986—1996.

Teaching assistant University Washington, 1940—1942. Member Canada College Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Education, 1968. Founding member Bay Area Consortium on Educational Needs of Women, 1971.

Member organizing committee for conference on frontiers of physics Stanford University, 1982.

Achievements

• Jane Davenport Fairbank has been listed as a noteworthy editor, civic worker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Canada College Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Education, 1968. Member organizing com.for conference on frontiers of physics Stanford University, 1982. Member Whitman College Alumni Association (board directors 1986-1996), California Congress Parents and Teachers (honorary life), Mortar Board, Phi Beta Kappa.

Alpha Chi Omega.

Member United Church of Christ. Member Stanford University Women"son

Connections

Married William Martin Fairbank, August 16, 1941. Children: William Martin, Robert Harold, Richard Dana.

Father:

Harold Edwin Davenport

Mother:

Mildred (Foster) Davenport

Spouse:

William Martin Fairbank

child:

William Martin Fairbank

child:

Robert Harold Fairbank

child:

Richard Dana Fairbank