"Women, Careers, and the Military" February 17
February 9, 2010
Posted: February 9, 2010
Four distinguished military women--two alumnae from MHC and two from Smith--will participate in a panel discussion Wednesday, February 17, titled “Women, Careers, and the Military” in the Weise Merriweather Room in Willits-Hallowell Center from 4:30 to 6 pm.
Mount Holyoke’s Career Development Center (CDC) hopes to raise the visibility and general understanding of public service careers, according to Joanna Adler Miles, senior associate director of the CDC. Smith’s Career Development Office and the Air Force ROTC Detachment 370 are cosponsoring the panel.
Speakers include:
Major Catherine Kimball-Eayrs ’93, who majored in psychology, entered the U.S. Army in 1995 and began medical school at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated in 1999 and began her pediatrics residency at the San Antonio Military Pediatrics Consortium. After completing her residency in 2002, she moved to Fort Hood, Texas, where she served as a general pediatrician for two years. In 2004, she moved to Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Washington, to work as a general pediatrician and as part of the attending staff for the pediatrics residency program. Kimball-Eayrs deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from September 2006 to September 2007. Upon her return to Fort Lewis, she became the chief of general pediatrics and served in that role until she moved to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2009. Currently, she serves as the chief of outpatient pediatrics at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Lt. Col. Lina M. Cashin ’88 is the director of staff, 45th space wing, at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. As director of staff, she leads 230 personnel in 19 organizations executing launch operations and support. She advises the wing commander and vice commander and establishes policies and procedures for the base. In the absence of the vice commander, she assumes his duties and coordinates the commander’s senior staff for wing emergency response. Cashin entered MHC in 1984 with a four-year Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps scholarship through AFROTC Detachment 370 at the University of Massachusetts. She graduated with a double major in mathematics and physics.
1st Lt. Molly Z. Miller is a research physicist in the U.S. Air Force, serving as the division integration officer, Directed Energy Bioeffects Division, Detachment 5, at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Smith College in 2007. Miller majored in physics, minored in engineering, and completed premedical requirements. She participated in ROTC at Detachment 370 at the University of Massachusetts and commissioned in May 2007. Miller is actively involved in sexual assault education and prevention in San Antonio, is one of two sexual assault prevention and outreach representatives in Detachment 5, educates Phase II security forces airmen in warrior and Airman character training about sexual assault, and is a founding member of a citywide outreach group. She is currently completing nursing school prerequisite classes at the University of Texas at San Antonio and plans to pursue a degree as a women’s health nurse practitioner.
1st Lt. Carolyn M. Tewksbury-Christie is an optical physicist for Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Labs at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. She is currently conducting basic research in the use of deformable mirrors to correct for atmospheric distortion of astronomical objects. Tewsbury-Christie graduated from Smith College in 2007 with a double major in geology and physics and commissioned into the Air Force through AFROTC, Detachment 370, at the University of Massachusetts. As part of the Space Countermeasures Hands-On Program, Tewsbury-Christie led a rapid prototyping project to design and build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in just six months. She serves as a researcher and the deputy section chief for the Atmospheric Simulation and Adaptive-optic Laboratory Testbed.
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