She acquired a beneficial BA into the economics, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and authored a thesis having Prof. Blair Stewart [1925–49] on the U.S. policy connected with sugar. She including did secretarial work with upcoming-President Dexter Keezer [1934–42], and you can helped Prof. Frank Munk [political research 1939–65] for the entering from his first book once his coming inside brand new U.S. Pursuing the graduation, Betty worked since the an enthusiastic economist getting You.S. State dept. during the Arizona, D.C. Into the 1946, she partnered fellow business economics big Robert W. Macaulay’43, and you will has worked just like the a receptionist while he made an MBA away from Harvard. The couple transferred to the newest Bay area, in which it remained having sixty ages.