Hagedorn, Beatrice M. (Beatrice Mead), 1920-

Engineer. Beatrice Mead Hagedorn was born in 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. (1942) in electronics and communication with a mathematics and physics option. While at Cornell she worked as the first female radio control operator at WCHU, Cornell University's broadcasting station.

After graduation and during World War II Mead worked in the research division of the Bell Telephone Company. Employed as an engineer in the crystal units group, Mead designed, made, and tested crystal models as well as writing specifications for their design. She married Lt. Alfred A. Hagedorn, an engineer with the U.S. Air Force, in 1943. They currently own and manage their own business in Colorado Springs, Colorado.