The fall after Carolyn graduated she got a job teaching math in Austin, and she bought her dream car, a blue Mustang!
Carolyn hated her teaching job. The students were unruly and she couldn't cope with them well. One student came at her with a sharp compass and she had to run next door for help. When she came home for Christmas, she said she couldn't go back. Well, we didn't know what to do.
My cousin Ethel (Aunt Sister’s daughter) called during that time to wish a Happy Christmas. We kept in touch, and Ethel was always interested in our children. Ethel’s husband Ross had become and engineer and had worked in Dallas for lots of years.
Eventually, Ross was sent to NASA to do his engineering work there. When I told Ethel of Carolyn's problem, she said maybe Ross could help. They were desperately in need of people at NASA.
Soon Carolyn was on the train to Houston to see Ethel and Ross. He took her out to NASA.
She had taken one computer science course in U.T., the only one offered at that time, but she had a double major in Math and Physics.
She applied to a number of contractors. Before she got home, IBM was on the phone offering her a job at two or three times her teaching salary.
Needless to say, she moved, and was always grateful to Ethel and Ross. Ross always would say, he didn't do anything. He just took her to NASA and she did the rest.
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