Margaret BauerOriginally from: St. Louis
Did you attend college and/or job training? Where?
Undergraduate at Washington University; Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
What was your mascot? In a fight, who would win: the mascot from
your alma matter or the Wash U Bear?
I believe MIT’s mascot is a beaver. I am sure that the WU Bear would make lunch of the MIT Beaver.
What brought you to Wash U?
I needed a job. The real estate development company I was working for went out of business when the prime interest rate reached 21 percent in 1982. If I had applied a day later, the job at WU would have been gone.
What is your favorite book?
Mechanics of Deformable Bodies by Beer and Johnston
Something interesting that many people don’t know about you is…?
My son Richard would say that there is absolutely nothing about me that is interesting. I grew up outside of a very small town in the Ozark hills. My father was an artist and raised goats. I ran a marathon in under 4 hours. I am good at racketball and minesweeper.