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Laura Henry (1912-2009) was born on 15 May 1912 in Palo Alto, California. She lived in Palo Alto until she graduated from high school in 1930. She then earned her BA in Education at State Teachers College of San Jose, California in 1934 before earning her MA in Biology from Stanford University in California in 1935. She worked as a faculty member and dean of girls at Sonora High school for six years before she was commissioned as an officer in the WAVES. She completed basic training at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts and was intended to become a dean of a WAVES training center due to her experience as a dean at Sonora High School. However, because of her education in biology and experience in mathematics and physics, she was chosen for special training in [...] Read more
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