StoryCorps: Heyward Wescott & Gail Cameron Wescott

July 9th, 2013

Gail Cameron Wescott will celebrate her eighty-first birthday this year. When she was a teen in the 1940s, her family encouraged her to seek higher education and a life that fulfilled her. At StoryCorps, Gail told her son, Heyward, about the years that followed.

Broadcast version of story that aired Tuesday, July 9, 2013

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