Early background and education; supported herself through school (Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy); reasons for choice of school; University of Kentucky. Husband’s work (Mervin Kelly), his position at Bell Laboratories, his interactions with other scientists, William Shockley, James Fisk, Oliver E. Buckley; the war years, and recollections of Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, Conyers Herring. Also prominently mentioned are: Harold DeForest Arnold, Clinton Joseph Davisson, Robert Andrews Millikan; Kelly College, New York University.