Jenny Flack Harriman:
Biographical Summary, 1955-2005

  

1955-1959: I attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, graduating in 1959, with a BA in Zoology, and minors in Music and English. I married Philip D. Harriman in June 1959. Phil graduated from Caltech with a BS in Physics that same year. (We were married between graduations!)

1950-1960: While Phil pursued PhD studies at UC Berkeley, I taught Biology at Oakland High School.

1960-1961: I decided to pursue graduate study in Microbiology, while completing advanced undergraduate study in Medical Technology at UC Berkeley. I sang with the UC Berkeley Chorus.

1961-1962: I completed my internship in Medical Technology at Herrick Memorial Hospital in Berkeley, and received my California License in 1962.

1961-1964: I worked as a Medical Technologist at Richmond Hospital, heading the Microbiology Section of the Laboratory. Phil received his PhD in Biophysics in 1964.

1964-1965: We moved to Cologne, Germany, where Phil pursued postdoctoral research in Biochemistry, having been awarded a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. I sang with the Bach Choir in Cologne.

  

1965-1966: We moved to Paris, France, where Phil continued his postdoctoral research at the Pasteur Institute. Our son, Marc Stuart Harriman was born in Paris in 1966.

1966-1968: We moved to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where Phil completed his postdoctoral research.

1968-1975: We moved to Durham, North Carolina, where Phil joined the Duke University faculty. I worked as a Medical Research Technologist at Duke from 1969-1971. From 1971-1975, I studied voice and sang in Duke opera workshop productions. I also taught piano and voice during that time.

1975-1977: We moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Phil joined the faculty at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC). I studied voice and piano at the Kansas City Conservatory, and sang with the UMKC Chorus and the Kansas City Lyric Opera Chorus. I continued to teach piano and voice.

1977-2001: We moved to the Washington, DC area, where Phil worked for the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 1978, I entered graduate school at the University of Maryland, and received an MLS (Master of Library Science) in Medical Librarianship in 1980. I worked for the US Department of Agriculture from 1981-84, managing an Animal Disease Information Center. From 1984-1995, I worked as a Medical Reference Librarian at the National Institutes of Health. From 1995-2001, I worked for the Department of Health & Human Services, as a Health Information Specialist. I sang with the University of Maryland Chorus from 1977-1991. The UM Chorus sang many times with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and made several European Tours. Our son, Marc, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1988. He received a Masters degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley in 1995, and began working for Anshen+Allen, an architectural firm in San Francisco. He married Maria Pia Allende in 1998.

  

2001-2005: We retired and moved to Sonoma County. Our grandson, Paul Allende Harriman, was born in 2003. For the past 3 years, Phil has been teaching part-time at Sonoma State University (SSU) and Dominican University in San Rafael, California, in their Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Programs. I have also taught several Web-related workshops for the SSU OLLI Program. We are very much enjoying being back in California and especially being close to our son, daughter-in-law, and grandson.