Engineer Memoirs
A:
In those days, moving in the civilian world was quite a big event. So the fact that we
moved three times in my somewhat early childhood was different from a lot of people
in the civilian world, unlike today.
Q:
That's right. Where did you and your husband meet?
A:
We met in Boston. After college I was working in Boston.
Q:
You had already been through college?
A:
Oh, yes. I had been out of college a couple of years-- was working in a law firm in
Boston. He was at MIT, and we had mutual friends.
Q:
What kind of work were you doing at the time?
A:
I was a probate accountant.
Q:
I don't know what that is.
A:
That's doing the accounts of the trusts and estates that are handled by a law firm.
Q:
And what kind of education did you have?
A:
I had a B.A. degree from Wellesley.
Q:
In?
A:
Economics.
Q:
Economics? That wasn't all that normal for a woman at that time to go into, was it?
A:
Well, it was at a woman's college, certainly.
Q:
Of course. That's a good point.
A:
However, economics was not the popular major that it is now. I don't pretend to be a
pathfinder or anything. It just was something I liked.
Q:
So you were kind of--well, you weren't really in your field.
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