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Bette Nesmith never was a whiz at typing. Not that she cared much. She was going to be an artist just like her mother, not a secretary. Unfortunately, Bette’s plans fell through in 1946, when she found herself divorced and supporting her young son, Robert Michael, otherwise known as Mike. She desperately needed a good job.
TOUGH PRECOMPUTER TIMES Opportunities were limited for women in the late 1940s. Bette took up typing and shorthand and became a secretary. To earn extra cash, she worked as a freelance artist. But Bette was the family’s sole provider and found it tough to make ends meet. As Mike later said bluntly, “We were dirt poor . . . just miserable.”
When Bette became executive secretary to the chairman of the board of Texas Bank and Trust, she was determined to keep her job—despite those darned electric typewriters. Back in the dark ages, before desktop computers existed, the only way to type a letter was on an actual typewriter.
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