creator:

Vetter, Betty M. (1924-1994)

title:

Papers

dates:

1896-1995, n.d.

extent:

7.89 linear feet (13 manuscript boxes, 2 half manuscript boxes, and 5 oversize boxes)

collection number:

MS 582

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Betty M. Vetter Papers, MS 582, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Betty Vetter was born October 25, 1924 in Center, Colorado, and died November 18, 1994 in Arlington, Virginia.  Vetter received a B.A. (1944) in Chemistry from the University of Colorado, and an M.A. (1948) from Stanford University in Theater and Drama.  Vetter enrolled in graduate work in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.  She was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1992.   In 1994 she was honored by the Association for Women in Science for “outstanding work in providing critical information and statistics on the science labor force for three decades.”

Following her service in the United States Navy WAVES during World War II, and her enrollment at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, Vetter taught at Fresno State University until 1958.  After her departure from Fresno State University, Vetter taught English for three years for the University of California Far East Program in Japan where she met and married Richard Vetter.  In 1961 Vetter taught at American University and the University of Maryland, and by 1963 Vetter had begun her career at the Commission of Professionals in Science and Technology in Washington, D.C., where she was director until her death in 1994.

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