When Judith Love Cohen was in school, she showed an affinity
for math and science. Her high school guidance counselor advised her to go to a
nice finishing school, but she continued studying math in college – while dancing
with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company. At 21, Judith moved to
California to work as a junior engineer with North American Aviation. She took
night classes to complete a master's degree at USC Viterbi School of
Engineering. Later, she worked for NASA. Judith was there August 28, 1969, when
she went into labor. She left for the hospital with a computer printout of the
problem she was trouble-shooting – the key to the Abort-Guidance System which
would enable the Apollo 13 crew to return safely the following April. Later, Judith
called her boss to say she’d sorted the problem, and had given birth to a baby
boy. Judith named the baby Thomas Jacob, but you know him as Jack Black.
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