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Margaret Pritchard MBE is a former Welsh radio and television broadcaster, best known for her work at HTV Wales. She was born in Bethesda in Gwynedd and is a first language Welsh speaker. She attended the Welsh College of Music and Drama and later gained a degree in Social Science.
- Background and Childhood
- Education
- Working at PGE While in School
- Wastewater Reclamation
- Becoming A Consultant
- International Travel
- Running A Business
- Involvement in Swe
- Other Activities in Swe
- The Over-The-Hill Suite
ELLER: Okay, today is October 15th, 2009. This is an oral history interview with Margaret Pritchard, better known as “Pritch,” for the Society of Women Engineers Grassroots Oral History Project. Margaret is a fellow of the Society of Women Engineers, and she— PRITCHARD: Also a fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management. ELLER: And a f...
ELLER: (laughs) How did you first become interested in science and math and engineering? [07:00] PRITCHARD: I was born to it. ELLER: You were born to it. PRITCHARD: Some people paint, some people are musicians, some people are artists, some people are whatever. My mother realized what my talents were when I was three—well, three going on four—becau...
ELLER: Okay. You worked at PGE while you were in school? PRITCHARD: Yes. In fact, when I first went to work—well, let me back up a minute. I spent considerable time before PGE working for Dean Witter, which was a stock brokerage. And all that time I was going to night school to get enough credentials so I could hire out as an engineering clerk, whi...
ELLER: You made a niche for yourself in large-scale laundry facilities and doing wastewater reclamation. PRITCHARD: Yes. ELLER: How did that come about? [21:00] How did that become the— PRITCHARD: Well, the corporate that I was corporate engineer for was in rental laundries, okay, and that started the laundry business. Then, one of the first jobs I...
ELLER: Okay. Why did you decide to become a consultant rather than go to another company? PRITCHARD: When I was cut loose, I was offered the consulting job with the company. So it was not by choice. It was by, Hey, we can’t pay you as an employee, but we can hire you as a consultant. And as a result, I had—there were twelve active jobs going at tha...
ELLER: You worked over a large portion of the United States and internationally. PRITCHARD: Yes. Twenty-five countries, all fifty states. ELLER: Wow. (laughs) How long would you be away during—? PRITCHARD: At the height of my career, I was home in bits and pieces two months out of the year. Ten months on the road. ELLER: That’s a lot of travel. How...
ELLER: Did you ever take any business classes to help support—to help you run your business? PRITCHARD: Not with my mother around. Remember, she was a banker. (laughs) And I didn’t lose her until 1992, so I had a good support right at home. ELLER: Okay. Okay. Was it difficult for you to transition from being an employee to being self-employed? [32:...
ELLER: Right, okay. Let’s step back and talk about your involvement in SWE. You said that you had first joined in 1961? PRITCHARD: Right. ELLER: How did you first get involved with SWE? PRITCHARD: It was while I was at the university taking my 400-series in industrial engineering, and Irene Peden, Dr. Peden was on the campus, and she was the moral ...
ELLER: [46:00] Can you tell me about some of the other activities and events that you worked on within SWE? Some of the—. PRITCHARD: Well, I’ve been chairman of the archives committee when we first—we had a cage in the basement of the Engineering Center which was chockablock of things and stuff. (laughs) We had one room upstairs. We had dear Winnie...
ELLER: Can you tell me about the Over-the-Hill suite? PRITCHARD: (laughs) We were just talking to the sales manager here down in the lobby for the hotel that we’re in right now, and one of my colleagues was saying, "Saturday night I hope you have a sound barrier on the 17th floor." [50:00] He wanted to know why, so we had to tell him about the Over...
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Apr 13, 2021 · Curator Margaret Pritchard discovered all this the hard way. By the mid-1990s, Pritchard and her colleagues had evidence that there had been wallpaper in the Thomas Everard House, and supected it had been hung in the George Wythe House.
Who is Margaret Pritchard? Margaret Pritchard is a former Welsh radio and television broadcaster, best known for her work at HTV Wales. Pritchard joined HTV Wales in 1971 as a newsreader and presenter, working on a variety of programmes in both the Welsh and English languages.
Aug 20, 2017 · Oak Lodge pioneering engineer Margaret Pritchard dies | News | milwaukiereview.com. submitted photo. Aug 20, 2017. Margaret Ann Prichard prior to graduating from Milwaukie High School in 1947. submitted photo. Tags. Pritchard. Industry: Electric Utilities - Nec. Entities: Oregon Trail. University Of Washington. Jennings Lodge.
