54 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT While an administrator at the University Survey Research Laboratory in Illinois, Ms. Greene enrolled in the Executive MBA Program of the UI School of Business. Fellow students were executives from various industries, and it was two years of exhausting study, experience exchanges, projects and group participation. She graduated with distinction in 1977. Later, she followed her husband to St. Louis, where she entered the banking world as a recruiter and trainer and, ultimately, to a job at CSC and world travel. When asked about all the countries she has been to that she would most like to live in, Ms. Greene answers, “America. I loved my work and friends in other countries, but home is home.” Her family instilled a drive to always be learning and growing. Their sense of community got them through the hardscrabble years, the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. She says now it is time to indulge her creativity. Leveraging over 55 years of experience, Margaret Pepperd Greene has sought to achieve a career of excellence as an administrator, writer and artist. Prior to retiring, she traveled worldwide as a banking software analyst and trainer for Computer Science Corporation (CSC) in Dallas. She used her writing and analytical abilities to help bankers transition from manual to digital systems. Her artistic bent proved useful in developing graphics that depicted the unseen technical environment. While developing manuals and graphics for banking computer technology had its satisfactions, Ms. Greene found time to take pencil, coloring elements or computers to satisfy a creative need to write stories and books. She used camera art to capture the world she saw, and her penchant for jewelry-making helped bridge cultural gaps with workers or new friends. Now fully retired, she is revitalizing and using Greene Studios of Tucson LLC, which she started with her late husband, Phillip, to fulfill and share creative urges. Ms. Greene acknowledges the importance of changes during her generation that enabled women to advance. At times, she was the only woman on a team but thought little of it. The Kansas pioneer women of her families had to be full working partners. MARGARET PEPPERD GREENE CO-OWNER Greene Studios of Tucson Tucson, AZ
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