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A look at black culture in Eastern North CarolinaWatfordcreditseducationforopening doorsBorn in a small Southern town during segregation, a black woman who eventually -became the mother of six, Kinston native OlaM. .Bryant Watfordbroke down a number of barriers in building Watforda career as a geophys- -—icist and a top official with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).Watford credited education with opening a world of possibilities to her.'Born on March 13,1927, to the Rev. ji.C and Georgia Bryant, she graduated from Adkin High School here and earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Johnson C. Smith University and a master’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado.She began her work with the federal government as a statistics clerk in the Naval Oceanographic Office in 1951. Ey 1973, she was employed as the only'female staff geophysicist in the Department of Commerce. She eventually rose to become chief of the Space Management and Design Branch of NOAA.These profiles of people and places are presented by The Free Press in observance of Black History Month. They were compiled and written by' Thelma H. Waters and other members of the Kinston African American Legacy.
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