they sat around their house in rye and--sam soloman and--and amelia earhart and gene vidal and paul collins, and they each threw in $10,000 and they started northeast airlines. c-span: did she work there? >> guest: yeah. she did. c-span: for how long? >> guest: oh, about a year. about a year. c-span: and then the last thing is signing on to teach at purdue. why is that significant? >> guest: well, i--it's very significant because, to me, i mean, i think it's kind of a hallmark of her personality. i think it sh-all of a sudden, elliott, who was the president, met her and was totally mesmerized by her and wanted to get her on the purdue campus. and she thought it was a wonderful idea and i think she would have probably spent the rest of her life doing that, being at purdue, because she was a s--a strong feminist. although she didn't come across as one, she had very strong beliefs. and what she always wanted to do was to get women to be the best that they could be. she wanted them to lose their sense of inferiority. she was always trying to enhance women's self-esteem. and there she was--she w