Velma Huskey

Velma Elizabeth Roeth was born October 8, 1917, in Houston, Ohio. She was the daughter of German-American farmers Frederick William Roeth and Clara Matilda Fessler. She attended Houston High School, where she wrote and edited the school news column published in The Piqua Daily Call.{{cite news |title=Houston High School News |newspaper=The Piqua Daily Call |date=1933-04-04 |page=3 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87045554/houston/ |via=Newspapers.com}} She entered Ohio University in 1937.{{cite news |title=Piqua Girl on Honor Role |newspaper=The Piqua Daily Call |date=1938-03-15 |page=7 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47478834/ |via=Newspapers.com}}

After marrying Harry Huskey in 1939, Velma Huskey earned a B.A. in English from Ohio State University in 1942.{{cite news |title=Attended Commencement in Columbus |newspaper=Piqua Daily Call |location=Piqua, Ohio |date=June 18, 1942 |page=2 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87004140/commencement/ |via=Newspapers.com}} There she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.{{cite book |last=Lee |first=John A. N. |date=1995 |title=International biographical dictionary of computer pioneers |pages=392–393 |location=Chicago |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |isbn=9781884964473 |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalbio00john/page/392/mode/2up?q=Roeth}}

File:Professor Harry Huskey. then of UC Berkeley, in India.jpg at an outing to temples in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh]]

Huskey worked as an information specialist for the National Bureau of Standards from 1948 to 1952. She became a technical writer at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at UCLA. Along with her husband, she was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers. She traveled to the Soviet Union for the 1959 technical delegation in computers, paying her own way while her husband represented the Association for Computing Machinery.{{cite journal |first=Willis H. |last=Ware |author-link=Willis Ware |title=Soviet Computer Technology--1959 |journal=Communications of the ACM |page=132 |date=1960 |volume=3 |issue=3 |url=https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/publications/other/ware_acm59.pdf |doi=10.1145/367149.1047530|s2cid=9708388 }} In 1967 the Huskeys moved to Santa Cruz, California.{{cite news |first=Marybeth |last=Varcados |title=Memories, mainly, traveled from Poland with the Huskeys |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=1983-09-15 |page=16 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47478360/ |via=Newspapers.com}}

Huskey was a biographer of Ada Lovelace.{{cite book |first=Velma R. |last=Huskey |editor-first=Edwin D. |editor-last=Reilly |chapter=Countess of Lovelace |title=Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science |date=September 3, 2004 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-0-470-09095-4 |pages=468–469 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Jaa1BVverIC&pg=PA468}} She studied letters in the Byron and Lovelace collection of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford during summer visits. Her writings appeared in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.{{cite journal |last1=Huskey |first1=Harry D. |author-link1=Harry Huskey |first2=Velma |last2=Huskey |author-link2=Velma Huskey |title=Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=2 |number=4 |date=1980 |pages=299–329|doi=10.1109/MAHC.1980.10042 |s2cid=2640048 }}{{cite journal |first=Velma R. |last=Huskey |author-link=Velma Huskey |title=Who Was the Mysterious Countess?

|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=7 |number=1 |date=1985 |pages=58–59 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4392964 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.1985.10008}}

She married Harry Huskey in 1939 and they had four children.

Velma E. R. Huskey died January 16, 1991, in Miami, Florida.{{cite journal |title=Velma E.R. Huskey |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=13 |number=2 |date=1991 |page=230}} She was buried at Santa Cruz Memorial Park in Santa Cruz, California.{{cite news |title=Velma R. Huskey |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=January 20, 1991 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87001468/obituary-for-velma-r-huskey-aged-73/ |via=Newspapers.com}}

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