Elizabeth D. Guillard

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received word of the death
June 6, 2006 of Elizabeth D. Guillard in Concord, New Hampshire. She
was 79.

Elizabeth “Betty” Davenport was born September 19, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY
and grew up in New Canaan, CT, where she attended the Center School and
graduated from New Canaan High School in 1944.  She worked briefly
as a legal secretary and as an advertising manager at Bride Basket in
New York City before accepting a position as a secretary at Yale
University in New Haven, CT, in September 1951. She married Robert
Guillard in 1954 and moved to Hawaii, where she worked briefly on
an international biological conference at the University of Hawaii. She
returned to Yale in 1955 and worked as a research assistant in the
Zoology Department, leaving in May 1958 to move to Woods Hole where Bob
had a staff appointment.

Betty joined the WHOI staff in June 1960 and worked as a part-time
technical illustrator with Gale Pasley until November 1962, when she was
named to a full-time position as a laboratory assistant in the Biology
Department, working with William Sutcliffe and later Edward
Baylor.  In September 1967 Betty transferred to the Physical
Oceanography Department and the Buoy Operations Group, working with Bob
Heinmiller and later Keith Bradley and George Tupper. She was promoted
to research assistant in 1968 and named a staff assistant in
1974.   She left the Institution in May 1986.

Further information will be posted when available.