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Shirley O. Hockett (Ithaca College chapter founding president), 93, counted all sorts of numbers. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hunter College and a master's degree in applied mathematics from University of Michigan, then enlisted in the Navy in 1942, attended the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Officers Candidate School, and was stationed in Washington, D.C., until honorable discharge upon pregnancy with her first child. Hockett then taught at Cornell University part time for...