edith jones woodward taught astronomy, mathematics, and geology for more than 40 years, at mount holyoke college (1938 to 1940), hunter college (1951 to 1952), and as a professor at william paterson college (1959 to 1983). she also taught math to high school students, from 1956 to 1959, and astronomy at national science foundations summer programs for teachers in 1961, and for selected high school students in 1964. based on her teaching experience, she published a textbook, "elementary concepts of sets" (1959), and addressed the 1960 meeting of the science-mathematics society of new jersey.