Victorian Tea Party

Promising high school women were invited to the first Victorian Tea Party hosted by IVCC in spring 2009. The tea provided the young women with opportunities to talk with women in engineering and engineering technology programs and careers.

A member of the IVCC Leadership Team, at right, talks with a high school student and her father during the tea.

The tea was held at the Hegeler Carus Mansion in LaSalle, a National Historic Landmark constructed in 1874.

Hosts and organizers of the tea from IVCC and from the Carus family. The highlight of the tea was a presentation by Kate Carus, a licensed professional engineer, about her great-grandmother, Mary Hegeler Carus, the first woman to receive an engineering degree from the University of Michigan. Inga Carus, the President and CEO of Carus Corporation, welcomed the young women and shared her career story.

The tea provided the participants
with an opportunity to talk
with women engineers and
engineering technicians
including several employed
at Carus Corporation.

To a news story about the 2009 tea

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, contact:

Principal Investigator Dorene Perez, Program Coordinator of CAE/CAD, Email: dorene_perez@ivcc.edu

Senior Personnel Jeanette Maurice, IVCC and Starved Rock Associates for Vocational and Technical Education, Email: jeanette_maurice@ivcc.edu

Illinois Valley Community College
815 North Orlando Smith Avenue
Oglesby, IL 61348
PHONE: 815-224-2720
FAX: 815-224-3033


A member of the IVCC Leadership Team, at right, talks with a high school student and her father during the tea.	The tea was held at the Hegeler Carus Mansion in LaSalle, a National Historic Landmark constructed in 1874.

		Hosts and organizers of the tea from IVCC and from the Carus family. The highlight of the tea was a presentation by Kate Carus, a licensed professional engineer, about her great-grandmother, Mary Hegeler Carus, the first woman to receive an engineering degree from the University of Michigan. Inga Carus, the President and CEO of Carus Corporation, welcomed the young women and shared her career story.
The tea provided the participants with an opportunity to talk with women engineers and engineering technicians including several employed at Carus Corporation.