>> Obviously graduated from Penn State.
And I started here at the main campus in 1979.
And I first started in education and then transferred
to the business school and pursued marketing.
I was sort of torn between advertising or marketing.
Didn't feel I had the artistic strength at that time to do advertising.
This is pre-computer, so you really had to have good freehand skills
as well for story boarding and so on.
So I migrated toward marketing.
I'd also in my sophomore year joined a sorority here at Penn State, Kappa Alpha Theta.
And some of the senior women in the sorority were marketing majors, were business majors,
and in talking with them began to become more aware of that
as a potential career and decided to pursue marketing.
I was fortunate that Corning Glass Works, my first employer who has offices nearby
and had some alums who actively came to campus to recruit did come to campus
in my spring semester of my senior year.
I wasn't ready in the fall when many students begin interviewing.
Because I had transferred into business a little later I wasn't really ready
to start thinking about career until the spring.
We had trimesters then, the spring of my senior year.
And very fortunate.
again, Corning Glass Works was one of the companies that came, and I was hired on
and started in a sales capacity for them in Chicago.