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Ann Katharine Mitchell, cryptanalyst and psychologist
Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Ann Katharine Mitchell, cryptanalyst and psychologist

Ann Katharine Mitchell a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War died on 11 May 2020, aged 97, in Edinburgh. She tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before her death. After the war she became a marriage guidance counsellor, then studied for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She worked at the university's Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce (1981) and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce (1985). Ann Williamson was born in Oxford on 19 November 1922, to Herbert Stansfield Williamson...
Ann Sullivan, animator
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Ann Sullivan, animator

Ann Sullivan an American animator, who primarily worked for Disney Animation died of complications from COVID-19 on April 13, 2020. Born Sara Ann McNeese in Fargo, North Dakota, to Thomas and Helen (Kossick) McNeese. Thomas was an accountant, and Helen was a stenographer. She went to a Catholic school and then to North Dakota State University. She followed her sister to California and enrolled at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Upon graduating in the 1950s, she began working in the animation paint lab of Disney Studios on films, including Peter Pan. Later, she took a leave of absence to raise her four children. In 1973, she joined Hanna-Barbera. Sullivan returned to Disney around 1987, animating such films as Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1...