“We needed to be assertive as women in those days — assertive and aggressive,” she said in a 1999 interview with author Wini Warren. “I was working with Ted Skopinski and he wanted to leave and go to Houston. Henry Pearson, our supervisor — he was not a fan of women — kept pushing him to finish the report we were working on. Finally, Ted told him, ‘Katherine should finish the report — she’s done most of the work anyway.’ Ted left Pearson no choice. I finished the report and my name went on it. That was the first time a woman in our division had her name on something.”