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Dr. Allen Garrison was a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta. He mentored 3 of the first female students in physics at Emory and set them on successful career tracks at a time when women ware not represented in college faculty or major employers of scientists in the United States.

At the same time as he was mentoring physics students, Garrison's physics research continued at a professional level "(High-Temperature Molecular Beam Microwave Spectrometer Allen Garrison, Walter Gordy Journal: Physical Review, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 899-900, 1957 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRev.108.899" A Georgia native, graduate of a small rural high school where I earned a National Merit Scholarship to Emory University, I was a Georgia State Star Student, and participated only briefly in basketball, due to not having a way to get home from practice after the schoolbuses left.  I did serve on the School newspaper staff as a co-editor, and a killer proofreader. Too shy to perform in the senior play, I later became a high school science teacher, and college physics professor, but never attempted to act in another play.  I was one of 3 female members of the high school chess club, a member of an honorary organization called "The Associated Shades," for students who excelled more in academics and, for the most part, very little in sports, the science club, Beta Club, and National Honorary Society. At the end of my junior year in high school I was first in my class in GPA, but by the end of the senior year I was 6th, due in part to a D in physics in optics, and electricity. Not being a talented public speaker at the time, I was probably lucky she didn't have to get up and speak in front of an auditorium full of people. Later on, at a university in South Dakota, I spoke in front of a room full of school teachers fearlessly, even though she had to give them some bad news about a change in Instructional Technology course requirements. She even quoted "Ollie North" when asked why the requirements had changed 3 weeks into a 4 week course ("I have no knowledge of that decision.") Many adventures (or misadventures) throughout the years, including being the first female faculty member (research faculty) at the Georgia Tech School of Physics in 1969, and, eventually a Fulbright lectureship in Saratov Russia, teaching instructional techology to college students and college English instructors. I taught high school science at Dunwoody High School in DeKalb County, and later taught physics and physical science at universities in Wyoming, Florida, South Dakota (http://www.bhsu.edu), and Georgia.