About the Facilitator

Elizabeth M. Bieniawski, BA Honors (History), MS (Library Science) -

a genuine Scottish lassie - is a historian and an information scientist having acquired her qualifications and experience in South Africa. Her dissertation on the thesaurus and information retrieval for rock engineering is listed in the catalog of holdings by the U.S. Library of Congress. She met Richard during their graduate school research at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She was then the Assistant Dean of the Women Residences where he was a frequent visitor... She won a History Scholarship to Oxford University in England but preferred to marry Richard instead!

They emigrated to the United States in 1978, where she raised their three sons in Pennsylvania while Richard was busy consulting all over the country. An avid gardener, she grew vegetables and fruit to supplement the meager academic budget. Later she created an award-winning flower and shrub garden and continued her gardening hobby when they retired to Prescott eleven years ago.

She is an enthusiastic reader of historical books, learned to speak Spanish at Yavapai College and became a globe trotter with Richard, studying international politics, culture and investing.

Over their marriage of 45 years, she edited all Richard's scientific and technical publications, involving 10 books and more than 150 publications.

They have three married sons, all engineers, and EIGHT grandchildren!