Cleota Gage Fry (December 30, 1910 – July 1, 2001) was an American mathematician, physicist and university professor.
She borrowed funding from a lawyer friend to attend Reed College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1933 with an undergraduate thesis titled, Analysis of Textile Fibers and Fabrics.
[1] Following graduation, she boarded a train for Chicago to meet Vivian Annabelle Johnson, a friend from Reed College who had become a member of the physics department at Purdue University.
[1] From 1939 until her retirement, she taught mathematics and physics at various times at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
In her will, she bequeathed funds for the need-based Cleota Gage Fry Scholarship, which is still available to students attending Reed College.