
Catherine "Kay" Stratton, enjoys the festivities at her 90th birthday party on Jan. 16 in the Emma Rogers Room at MIT. Mrs. Stratton was first lady of the Institute from 1959-66, when her late husband, Julius Adams Stratton, was MIT's president. She initiated the Aging Successfully lecture series, which is now part of The Catherine Stratton Lecture Series established by the MIT Women's League in her honor. Recent lectures have included: America: An Empire? - Oct. 2003 Hormones & The Hands of Time - April 2003 Stem Cells, Cloning and Gene Therapy: The Biology Behind It" - Oct. 2002 Aging Skin - April 2002 China as the World's Biggest Economy? - Oct. 2001 Photo / Donna Coveney