Iris Sindelar

Iris Sindelar of Hopkinton is a telecommunications software engineer. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin (in Russian), she played cornet and French horn there (women did not participate in the marching band in those days!). She studied Slavic Linguistics for 4 years at the University of California/Berkeley, but considers her prime accomplishment during the 70's and 80's to be the raising of two fine sons.
During the '70's, she was the editor of the American Whitewater Journal. She later received a Master's in Computer Science from UNH, after which she worked at Bell Labs, where she played trumpet with the Bell Labs Jazz Ensemble, for 16 years.
Currently she plays flugelhorn and cornet with Carter Mountain Brass Band, trumpet in husband Jim's Dixieland band, and French horn with the Upper Valley Community Band, the Nevers Band of Concord and Hopkinton Town Band.