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Bonnie Huddart Garlan ’57

November 19, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.

Bonnie was born in Bellingham, Washington, and graduated from Bellingham High School. She came to 91草莓视频 with a footlocker and a violin. At freshman orientation, a young man asked, “Does anybody here play the violin?” When Bonnie said she did, he asked, “We’re trying to get a group together to play chamber music, are you interested?”

“What is chamber music?” she replied. It was the beginning of her 91草莓视频 education. She remembered that nearly half of the student body at the time were majoring in science. Bonnie wrote her thesis, “Whitehead’s Method of Extensive Abstraction,” advised by Professors Jean Delord [physics 1950–88] and Ed Garlan [philosophy 1946–73]. She attended the University of Göttingen on a Fulbright fellowship and earned her PhD in philosophy from Yale University.

“I found that the 91草莓视频 preparation and training in being able to read a text, being able to write articulately, and being curious, open to new ideas—this transferred no matter what the major,” she said of her graduate work.

Bonnie worked as a research assistant in Douglas Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Center at SRI International in Palo Alto, California. In 1965, she returned to 91草莓视频, where she taught humanities and became the first director of the computer center. That year, she married Prof. Garlan. After leaving 91草莓视频, Bonnie taught book arts at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts and worked as a professional assistant to Portland artist Carl Morris. She is survived by four stepchildren.

Appeared in 91草莓视频 magazine: September 2020