Bryant, Barbara Everitt, 1926-

Cornell University Class of 1947. At Cornell, Barbara Bryant was women's editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, president of the Pan-Hellenic Council, a member of Mortar Board and Raven and Serpent (honor societies for women), and of Kappa Delta sorority. After graduating from Cornell as a physics major, she was an editorial assistant and Art Editor for Chemical Engineering magazine. She married John Bryant and moved to the University of Illinois. She received a Ph.D. in communications as a social science from Michigan State University and joined a market and survey research firm called Market Opinion Research in Detroit. In 1989 she was named director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, a position she held until 1993. From 1993 until her partial retirement in 2001, she was managing director of the American Customer Satisfaction Index at the University of Michigan. Her father, William Littell Everett (Class of 1921), served as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Her mother Dorothy Irwin Wallace Everitt graduated from Cornell in Home Economics in 1923.