Mildred Louise Shapley Matthews was born in Pasadena, CA on February 15, 1915, the eldest child of Harlow (1885-1972) and Martha Betz (1890-1981) Shapley. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a major in Physical Science. In 1937 she married Ralph Vernon Matthews (1914-2002). They had four children: June (b. 1939), Bruce (b. 1941), Melvin (b. 1945), and Martha (b. 1963). During a long career Mildred worked in several areas of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, the Osservatorio Astronomico in Trieste, Italy, and at the University of Arizona. From 1970 to 1996 she was Scientific Editor of a series of books on Space Science at Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Her major interests outside science were grand opera and world travel. She passed away on February 11, 2016.June Lorraine Matthews, born August 1, 1939 to Mildred and Ralph Matthews, is the eldest granddaughter of Harlow Shapley. Shapley, with his wit, his scientific prowess, and his wide-ranging intellectual interests exerted a profound influence on her life throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. June graduated from Carleton College in 1960 with a major in Physics, and received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Rutgers University before joining the faculty at MIT in 1973, where she remained until her retirement in 2012.Thomas Joseph Bogdan was born July 25, 1957 to Margaret Derejko and Leonard Bogdan. He graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979 with a joint major in Physics and Mathematics, and received his Ph.d. from the University of Chicago in 1984. He held a postdoctoral fellowship and then a staff position at the High altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. He has served as Director of the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center and as President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
