Ramona Borders (Part 1) · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Ramona Borders (Part 1)
Date(s): 6/12/2017
Interviewee(s): Ramona Borders See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Bethany Anderson See all items with this value
Interviewer Position: Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist
Summary: Born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, Ramona (Russell) Pogue Borders received her bachelor of science degree in marketing and management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1948. Following graduation, Borders worked in the Bureau of Economics and Business Research as a statistician. From 1952 through 1984, she worked as one of the first operators for ILLIAC I (located in 165A Engineering Research Laboratory). She was promoted to computer supervisor and when the Digital Computer Laboratory (DCL) opened in 1958. Borders became the administrative aide in 1968, and when the Computing Services Office (CSO) formed in separation from the Department of Computer Science in 1970, she became one of the first employees of CSO. She retired from the University of Illinois in 1984. In this interview, Borders describes her childhood and education, as well as her experiences as a woman working in this unique computing environment.
Subject(s): acm See all items with this value; computer science See all items with this value; illiac See all items with this value; ordvac See all items with this value; women in computing See all items with this value
Related Resources: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=11555

Item sets: Women in Computing