MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

MIT's Building 20: The Magical Incubator Story, Anecdote, or Reminiscence

How We Met in Building 20

Jane Miller Moffett and Read Moffett
'59

In 1958, after graduation from Smith College as an Art major, I got my first job at MIT doing drafting for Percy Lund in the Illustration Department. My husband, Read Moffett, then a senior majoring in Physics, used to come in for "free" drawings on my lunch hour.

Incidentally, trying to draw a straight line with ROTC on one side showing war movies, the rock crushers on the other side and the model train blowing its whistle across the hall, was a real challenge. Occasionally the straight lines wavered.

At the end of 1958-59 academic year, I said good-bye to Robert and his friends thinking that we would never meet again. Two years later we re-met at the top of Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. We married in 1962, and in 1970, I was doing free drawings again; this time for his Ph.D. thesis in High Energy Physics at the University of Rochester. Last December we celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary. We feel that Building 20 will always hold special memories for us.