“After three years at Keuka College with a major in English and a minor in psychology, I transferred to the University of Oklahoma Art School for one year. I met my husband while working for General Electric in Cleveland, OH, and following our marriage we lived for a short time in New Orleans. My husband had been a merchant seaman for 8 years, but not liking the separation we returned to my home area in New York State where he attended Union College and started work at the General Electric Company in Schenectady. When my children were of nursery age I became involved with a cooperative nursery school and soon found myself chairman, a position I held for four years, accomplishing incorporation of the school and purchase of a rural schoolhouse. At this point, as classes were to begin for the school year, our teacher could not fulfill her contract, and I agreed to teach until a teacher could be hired. I taught for 6 years, became active in the NY State Association for the Education of Young Children, supervised student teachers and was editor of the New York Early Education Reporter. Later I was employed as a bookkeeper for a local heating oil company.”