ABSTRACT
Betty became a faculty member during a period in America that has been called the Golden Age of Science. More dollars were being spent, more people trained, more jobs created, and more articles published. Betty beat the odds against women and became a faculty member in mathematics and then statistics at UC-Berkeley, and then she beat more odds and rose to senior status in the faculty. Like many instructors, Betty sometimes thought teaching was a struggle. Mathematics Department Chair Griffith Evans had approved appointments to the faculty of Neyman as a professor in 1938, and then Betty as a lecturer ten years later in 1948. The year 1955 was also when UC-Berkeley began offering degrees in biostatistics. In 1955-56, the first year of the statistics department, Betty taught courses at all levels. Juliet Shaffer was younger than Betty, having completed her PhD in psychology at Stanford University in 1957.
