32     March 19, 1953
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

Nancy Easley from Corpus Christi, Texas: "My college has 900 students...I'm the only woman"
Miss Easley attends the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.  While the engineering and geology school has technically been coeducational since its inception in 1874, very few females enrolled in those early years, and through 1953 only four women had graduated.  Even today, the student body is nearly 70% male. Easley, whose story had appeared last fall in Life Magazine, would graduate in 1956.

Mrs Gladys Harding Brooks: "I dated President Eisenhower"
Not only that, it could easily be said that Gladys Harding was Eisenhower's first true love.  They were classmates at Abilene High School, where he was a football hero on his way to West Point, and she was an operatic soprano and pianist on her way to a multi-year engagement with the touring Apollo Concert Company. When they both returned to Abilene in the summer of 1915, they began a passionate romantic relationship that led to talk of marriage, and perhaps even a proposal from Eisenhower. Gladys was unsure of whether she wanted to give up her career to become an army wife, so by the fall, both heartbroken, she returned to her musical tour and he reported to Fort Sam Houston. According to at least one biographer, Gladys had a change of heart and was willing to give up her career for Ike, but in the meantime he had met Mamie Dowd, who would become his wife in the summer of 1916.  Gladys also married that summer.