Sylvia Katharine Kraemer

Background

Kraemer, Sylvia Katharine was born on February 24, 1944 in Neisse, Silesia, Germany. Came to United States, 1948. Daughter of Thomas Paramore Doughty (adoptive) and Dorothea Freihube (Kraemer) Doughty.

Education

Bachelor in English, Hollins College, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Johns Hopkins University, 1969.

Career

Instructor Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1969. Assistant professor history Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1969-1970, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1970-1973. Research associate professor University Maine, Orono, 1975-1978.

Member visiting faculty Bangor Theological Seminary, Maine, 1981-1983. Chief historian National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, 1983-1989, director Office Special Studies, 1989-1998, member NSSA Advisory Council, 1981-1983; NASA Senior Executive Service, 1993-ret.; director policy development, 1998-2002. Ret, 2002.

Works

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  • Science and Technology Policy in the United States - Rutgers University Press

    ("Kraemer's book ably sets policy and policymaking for sci...)

    2006

  • NASA Engineers and the Age of Apollo (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administratrion, 1992) .

    ([This is] a unique book about a much neglected aspect of ...)

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    (Book by Fries, Sylvia D.)

• Continuing on-line publication of research and writing

  • Baconspromise.org

    (A continuing series of essays inspired by the complex int...)

• Other Work

  • Author: Urban Idea in Colonial America, 1977, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Engineers in the Age of Apollo, 1992

  • also essays.

Politics

An advocate of open systems, whether in technology, politics, intellectual life; fan of Sisela Bok, Isaiah Berlin.

Membership

Member Maine Humanities Council, 1979-1983. Consultant on education issues, Virginia, since 1993. Fellow International Academy Astronautics.

Member American Association of University Women, Women in Aerospace, Executive Women in Government, Society for History in Federal Government (executive council 1988-1991, James Madison award 1989).

Interests

• violin, painting, current history

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Sisela Bok, Isiah Berlin

• Politicians

  James Madison

• Writers

  Isiah Berlin, Alan Furst

• Music & Bands

  Classical, esp. concerti; Schostakovich and Prokoviev

Connections

Married Russell Inslee Fries, April 11, 1970 (div. November 1991); children: Thomas Mount, Gwyneth Buchanan.

Father:

Thomas Paramore Doughty (adopt., dec.)

Mother:

Dorothea Freihube Doughty (dec.)

Spouse:

Russell Inslee Fries

child:

Thomas Mount Fries

child:

Gwyneth Buchanan Marcelo-Fries