Grace Murray Hopper, January 1, 1992
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
Length: 03:00
Even if you've never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.
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Grace Murray Hopper died today, January 1, 1992.
Even if you’ve never heard of Grace Hopper, she changed your life.
Her father, a successful businessman with both legs amputated, demonstrated to his children they could do anything they put their minds to. Grace took him seriously. At age 16, while other kids were still mastering mumbley peg, Hopper took her first college entrance exams. Later she would earn her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale.
Her motto was “do and dare” and all her life she did. Inspired by relatives who had served in the American Revolution, she joined the Navy WAVES program during World War II. The acronym stands for Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services. As the recruiting poster read: “enlist in the WAVES, release a man to fight at sea.”
She managed to get into the Navy even though–in her mid-thirties–she was too old and too small, weighing in...
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