3 Ix
White Electric
Wizard
In Dreams
She appears –
When the Veil
Is most transparent
Vesica Piscis*
Sacred Vessel
Hoop of two Moons
Meeting Face to Face
Sacred Portal is she
Out of Duality into Reality
Into Unity –
The Absolute
Clan Initiate
Am I now
Given the Mission
For which I’ve prayed
Mystae and Woman Wise
Full of Poetry and Motion
Pregnant with a Zeitgeist –
Mediatrix of a Vision.
*Sacred Geometry: a pointed oval
shape used in medieval art and sculpture, especially to enclose a figure of
Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Carolyn Parker
Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917–1966) was a physicist who worked from 1943 to 1947 on the Dayton Project, the plutonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project. She then became an assistant professor in physics at Fisk University.
Parker earned two master's degrees, one in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941 and one in physics from MIT in 1951. Her completion of a doctorate in physics at MIT was prevented by the leukemia that would kill her at age 47. Leukemia was an occupational risk for workers on the Dayton Project.
Parker is the first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics.
Early life and education
Carolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville, Florida on November 18, 1917. Her father was Julius A. Parker, a physician who according to the family, was a student of John Kenneth Galbraith, and the second African-American to receive a PhD in business from Harvard. Her mother was Della Ella Murrell Parker. Della Parker was a sister of Joan Murrell Owens, a marine biologist who was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in geology.
Carolyn Parker was one of six children, all but one of whom received natural science or mathematics degrees. Mary Parker Miller had a Masters of Science in mathematics from New York University in 1975; Juanita Parker Wynter had a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and chemistry, and a Master of Science from New York University; Julie Leslie Parker had a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Fisk University and a master's degree in medical technology from Meharry Medical College; and Julius Parker Jr had a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan. The sixth sibling, Martha Parker, studied social sciences, gaining a master's degree from Temple University.
Carolyn Parker graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) degree from Fisk University in 1938, then an A.M. (Master of Arts) in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941.
She undertook further studies from 1946–1947 at Ohio State University, towards the end of time of her time on the Dayton Project. She earned a Master's in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1951. Parker's family report that she had completed the course work for her PhD in physics at MIT around 1952 or 1953, but leukemia prevented her from defending her dissertation. She is the first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics.
Career
Parker taught in public schools in Rochelle, Florida from 1938–1939, Gainesville, Florida from 1939–1940, and Newport News, Virginia from 1941–1942. She was an instructor in physics and mathematics at Bluefield State College from 1942–1943. From 1943 to 1947, Parker was a research physicist on the Dayton Project, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The Dayton Project was part of the Manhattan Project to develop atomic weapons in World War II, and continuing into the Cold War. The Monsanto Chemical Company led top-secret research work on using polonium as the initiator for atomic explosions. Parker's sister, Juanita Parker Wynter, reported in an interview that her work there was "so secret she couldn't discuss it, even with us, her family".
In 1947, Parker became an assistant professor of physics at Fisk University in Tennessee.
Parker was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, the American Physical Society, Sigma Upsilon Pi, and Delta Sigma Theta.
Personal life
Parker's family report that she died of leukemia, which they believe was radiation-induced. Leukemia is regarded as a risk of occupational polonium exposure. Workers on the Dayton Project had weekly tests for polonium excretion. In 2000, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program included leukemia as a compensable illness for workers at the Dayton Project who were, or should have been, regularly monitored for polonium levels and were employed there over a certain time.
Parker died in Gainesville, Florida on 3 March 1966 at the age of 47. She was Roman Catholic.*
IK
Kin 94: White Electric Wizard
I activate in order to enchant
Bonding receptivity
I seal the output of timelessness
with the electric tone of service
I am guided by the power of endlessness.
In the cosmic evolutionary nature, whenever a planet attains noosphere, the planetary mind, it then becomes capable of receiving the processes that create galactic culture.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Ajna Chakra (Gamma Plasma)
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