People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.
I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.
I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.
I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.