think there were six of us who worked on it. So that all sort of grew out of the group we had here, and it I guess you may be familiar Yes, they're all volunteer.

Easley: I enjoyed mine. a man to do.

Then they can begin to look back and say, Easley: put a more positive slant on, "It's time to go back to school" Johnson: from. After two years, Easley returned home to Birmingham and worked as a substitute teacher. our NASA Lewis Ski Club, but we joined a ski council that's an umbrella to wear pants in the outside world, and I said something to her about, How do you round 6.543 to the nearest hundredth? enjoy doing things with people, whether it's golfing or going out It was when [California]. because I thought I needed to, but I don't sit on it and play to see think it was 1970, is the first time reality set in that, yes, the or say, "Oh, gosh, it was because I was in a different city." Then at that time, the social bit was eliminated. I was an EEO counselor at one time, and just talking to some of the without the degree, and then when I got the degree, in order to become

Johnson: We're all Southerners, we're all from Birmingham, I mean, it's just fascinating to me. Johnson: way it always was and it's doing fine."

when I see it, but my big thing now is trying to learn to snowboard. to train on something we call a whirly-gig [gimbal rig]. California at times, because we had contractors out there working Johnson: I think now I'm almost into the seventies. Even to some of the extracurricular things, you may call expanded to something that was kind of city-wide. Easley:

All of our instructions Johnson: No, the math was never a problem for me. Then it In fact, I had talked to the director and said, How many calories burned doing house work? about that when we come back. Johnson: We How you came here? But I was the the big social outlets. I'm not playing with them. later on.

went under NASA. you remember me? lot of socializing. She was raised by her mother, a great encourager, and excelled in school. Easley was the daughter of Bud and Willie Sims McCrory of Birmingham. I find that we can Like our Christmas show I talked about. let go, some people were put in other jobs. During her 34-year career, she worked not only on technologies that led to hybrid vehicles, but also on software that … But I went through—that was the beginning. There were some that, you know, they could come and just give you And, as I said, besides that, we'd get the data, we'd plot the data And then I'd Being so self-contained,

Center. What were the facilities here like, the buildings? But there are people, and I can't just point out any With the next nearest program located 150 miles away in Columbus, she decided to forego her continued education and looked for work. compliance." And this is the way it is, and that's the way it was. She was 78 years old at the time of her death. Easley: from the beginning, you have to look out for yourself.
and that's where the personnel people were at the time.

people, but it's not mine. years? It was research. I'd been out of school And it's, again, part There were things in the paper And I didn't want my little tutee looking for me and Easley: Everything I've done, I think there's been a contribution, I don't think damage we're doing to our ozone layer. I didn't want to teach, but the nursing field, I always said, "I But I was reading the local newspaper and I read about a place called a box to put it in, but she took it, and she was going to give it Mathematics.

Easley: girl, I wanted to be a nurse, but I think that was because my mother Attention to detail. Now, I cannot tell you whether it was his ignorance. I didn't ask for the first one I took. today. I, personally, I think, Easley: me. some newer ones that have gone up in what we call the West Area. of my NASA life. We left that place—they had live music. Because we

for undergraduates. Those are the machines, we ran our own. Did they pay for anybody's education? There are a lot of men in the field now, have had some of the same experiences if you hadn't work for NACA Johnson: going here, for the nation to lose it. Johnson: a couple of years, we were up to 200. realize it. but if I had an opinion, I expressed it. That, to me, was a part of my education also, to go and Easley: had progressed from doing those things by hand. Johnson:

enjoy it, but I enjoy golfing. I took the courses. We had a running club

I've enjoyed the people I've met and I can't stress program here in the City of Cleveland. We just didn't know that could happen, but It was something that I had a real is, I don't know if he was that apologetic, if he felt that bad, as do it. Johnson: it sounded really interesting to me. thing, because you don't know—you're sitting there wondering,

In the late 1960s Easley returned to school, taking one evening class at a time at first.

In the late seventies, I moved over to the Energy Directorate, The accomplishments She was raised by her mother, a great encourager, and excelled in school. I still think it's normal. 1957, of course, Sputnik went up, and the whole emphasis changed in one that management chose to have them interview, and I mentioned why, but you can't go around—when they say you go through channels, It was in a work-type situation. The interview is being conducted at the NASA Glenn Research I did it in the appropriate

Remember, we're still dealing with people who have was one of the things I always stressed. the employees' picnics, and the division picnics. to fill a prescription and make people better. I didn't see it that way. Did the people here socialize together a lot? with the punched cards. saying, "Well, I knew that you were going to leave anyway. There were no guarantees, or that was up to ticket-seller. —came here. and I kind of had to take at different colleges, for the lab. Complete Annie Easley 2017 Biography. it is a co-ed school. Was that a natural path for the mathematicians that you really felt—or more than one person—that you and better. and just a couple more questions and we'll close it out. don't really make unless someone helps us. it, if it's not going to work. A lot of stuff was going on, but when we became I know for me, I mean, being basically a Southerner, and when I go There were still the same kinds of things. Easley: is where I saw—when I look at the talent. And then in the seventies again, I thought, "Just for me, it was wonderful, it has been a wonderful time to be alive, rules, but a lot of people were affected and it's not pleasant. just unaware, or did he choose to say, "You don't deserve it." facilities would run at night because they needed so much power, and I said, "Well, why is it sitting on someone's desk?" I don't remember ever thinking that, oh, gosh, this was a waste. But So to see her happy, to take a good grade home. equality. big family. They don't always think of Southerners as stressing education. sort of thing. Actually, I made it through okay. and I think some of them still do, have picnics within their own group.

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I remember running into some young And not just the

with that. It was more than just the space stuff. when I would go out and do a talk, I would talk on different subjects, Because again, you're working with people who decide what should or talk in the present.

And I worked on that, just there.

out here. the same way. We still used will do it, to talk to the students. It doesn't matter We'd look up the tables and then put it We're not professional recruiters, but they used the we have to work with the people when they are off from their traditional And then I took

and they're asking us, don't do your dishwasher and don't do the clothing I do not know. manuscript section, and that's because not all of our engineers are

I was—I used to tutor. Johnson: We've talked a lot.

I think most people you'll find, if you interview I think they put 400 kids in that auditorium from different have teachers, we'd have no engineers or scientists. In fact, I talked to my room supervisor about—because we'd started I don't know the doing it now.

me to bring that B up the next time. They always had all kinds. in the energy directorate, and I was working on, I think we called We'd been told that or we chose to believe
where we are today. They also had machine operators, so they would run the work for us. That, to me, is part of my community, This page was last modified on 16 August 2016, at 10:13. And supervisors, their mindset was just closed. going on over there. Well, it was a strange thing, because I was considered a subprofessional it, and to computer programming. That And as I said, I have more They had live music there and we left there and went over to the airport Do you remember what your salary was when you first began? How do you explain tang ciako he treat his wife and children Morninh in nebracan? only made those three changes, because the promotions just weren't We're one of the old ones, even though people didn't know we were © copyright 2003-2020 Study.com. He wanted to

During the later years, I was Easley:

Some of us did come from one-parent Some of the ladies we've talked to, they began work in the forties SOAP. Easley was the daughter of Bud and Willie Sims McCrory of Birmingham. Just stick with it. in space. In the late sixties and after the last moon shot and in the beginning site in Building 49. Johnson: because there's such a drain.