| 词条 | Sandra Carpenter |
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Early life and educationCarpenter was born in Des Moines, Iowa on February 4, 1934. She grew up in several Midwestern cities and then in Short Hills, New Jersey. In 1952, Carpenter graduated from the Beard School in Orange, NJ (now Morristown-Beard School). She then completed her bachelor's degree in literature at Smith College in Northampton, MA in 1956.[1] Carpenter co-chaired a reception of the Smith College Clubs of Los Angeles and Pasadena to launch the $125 million fundraising campaign for the school in 1988.[4] Information technology careerIn the 1960s, Carpenter joined IBM as a systems engineer, instructor, and sales representative. She was the first woman to take on all three of these roles at the company.[5] Carpenter later served as director of information systems at Quanex Corp., an industrial company in Houston, Texas, and chief information officer at Rosenbluth Travel in Philadelphia during the 1990s. Rosenbluth, the fifth largest travel agency in the U.S. at the time, had a corporate client list that included Walmart, DuPont, Nike, Inc., and Chevron Corporation.[6] (After its 2003 acquisition by American Express, Rosenblauth's operations now work as the American Express Business Travel division.[7]) Carpenter led the automation of Rosenblauth's booking system, which had previously relied on manual entry.[8] In a 1992 profile of her work written by CIO magazine, Carpenter outlined five critical elements for IT innovation at Rosenblauth:
Service workCarpenter founded the first woman's shelter in the Detroit, Michigan suburbs. She helped organize the Michigan chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and served as the founding president of NOW's Oakland County chapter. in 1975, the Wayne County chapter of NOW awarded Carpenter their Feminist of the Year Award.[1] FamilyAfter her college studies, Sandra Carpenter married Nick de Kuyper and moved to Europe to live with de Kuyper. They had one son, John. They divorced in 1961. In 1964, Sandra Carpenter married widower Robert Carpenter. She adopted his four children: Robert, John, Kristin and Charles. Sandra Carpenter and Robert Carpenter divorced in 1980.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite news | newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer | title=Sandra Carpenter, executive | date=24 July 2003 | author=Gayle Ronan | url=http://articles.philly.com/2003-07-24/news/25451594_1_robert-carpenter-memorial-service-quanex}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Sandra C.}}2. ^{{cite journal | journal=CIO magazine | year=1989 | volume=2 | issue=11 | title=Travel Services: Reservations Required}} 3. ^{{cite journal | journal=CIO magazine | year=1989 | volume=2 | number=11 | title=The CIO 100: Who, What, Where, When}} 4. ^{{cite news | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | title=Autry, Young Glitter at Jewel Gala V | date=16 October 1988}} 5. ^{{cite journal | journal=Smith Alumni Quarterly | date = 2006 | volume = 92 | number =2 | title = Obituaries: Sandra Mitchell Carpenter | url = http://saqonline.smith.edu/winter2005/files/smith_w05_web.pdf | page = 89 | accessdate = 31 December 2015}} 6. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Little Travel Agency That Could; Rosenbluth's Key to Growth Is Corporate Business | date=16 October 1997}} 7. ^Amex Completes Rosenbluth Integration 8. ^{{cite journal | journal=CIO magazine | year=1992 | volume=5 | number=8 | title=Electronic Bookings: Windows on the World}} 9. ^{{cite journal | journal=CIO magazine | volume=5 | issue=11 | title=The Mad Doctor of Corporate Travel | year=1992}} 12 : Women in engineering|American chief technologists|IBM employees|Women's rights activists|Smith College alumni|Businesspeople from Des Moines, Iowa|1934 births|2003 deaths|American women chief executives|Chief information officers|Morristown-Beard School alumni|People from Short Hills, New Jersey |
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