Description
Pat Cross was born on Saint Patrick’s Day, 1926 in Normal, Illinois. In this interview, she describes her childhood growing up in Normal before the start of the Second World War. Following a six-month training program at the University of Minnesota, Pat worked as a radar engineering aide at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. She describes her recollection of the training program and her memories of working at Wright Field. Following the war, she completed her doctorate at the University of Illinois before teaching and serving as an administrator at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley.