Talk:Sally Shelton-Colby

Latest comment: 9 years ago by WhisperToMe in topic Name of Shelton-Colby's first husband

Name of Shelton-Colby's first husband edit

From: The Executive Female, Volumes 3-4. National Association for Female Executives, 1980. Page 51 (all book views and search results are from page 51 of this book). -- Hosted on Google Books

View #1 which shows "Sally Shelton")
View #2: "Then she fell in love, and through the man she later married, Eduardo Jimenez, a Mexican lawyer, she became interested in Latin America and the Caribbean."
  • Details confirming it's the same Sally Shelton: "The appointment was a precise dream come true. Sally wanted to be an ambassador from the age of nine" and "(population 6,000) where she was a cheerleader and class secretary in high school." and "She transferred from Southern Methodist University in Texas to the University of Missouri after freshman year" and "Meanwhile she taught U.S. foreign[...]"
Search page #1: "Sally Shelton I: You are a graduate of Vassar and Yale. What's an Ivy Leaguer ... Then she fell in love, and through the man she later married, Eduardo Jimenez, a Mexican lawyer, she became interested in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Search page #2: "The appointment was a precise dream come true. Sally wanted to be an ambassador from the age of nine — "from the time I was old enough to know what an ambassador was. I didn't fully know what an ambassador did but I knew that an"
Search page #3: "She transferred from Southern Methodist University in Texas to the University of Missouri after freshman year — she had written Princeton, but they turned her down because she was a woman. Her undergraduate degree was in European ..."

I would like to see if I can find at least one more source. WhisperToMe (talk) 09:37, 3 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

A View of page 3 of this volume states: "48 Profiles Grace M. Hopper a.k.a. Grandma COBOL Sally Shelton, U S Ambassador to the Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Jane Merrill Filstrup" - Based on the layout, Filstrup is the author of the section that discusses Hopper and Shelton, and this section begins on page 48.

WhisperToMe (talk) 07:49, 4 August 2014 (UTC)Reply