Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

he certainly couldn’t resist the thrill of
the family’s first grandchild. Though
disappointed, neither he nor the other
influential men in her life—Dr. Claytor
and Dr. Davis—would ever have asked
her to deny love or sacrifice a family for
the promise of a career.
In the four years since leaving
graduate school, Katherine had not once
regretted her decision to exchange the
high-profile academic opportunity for
domestic life. Most days she felt like the
luckiest person in the world, in love with
her husband and blessed with three
daughters she adored. In idle moments
her thoughts turned to Dr. Claytor and the
phantom career he had assiduously
prepared her for. In truth, the idea of
becoming a research mathematician had
always been an abstraction, and with the