Emma Mae Williams ’32

My mom, Emma Mae Williams, graduated with the winter class of 1932. Unlike me, she was active in sports and was a part of the GAA. She met my dad Virgil Kelsoe through a neighbor Helen Becraft (also a Tech alumni). Helen was supposed to go out with him, but my mom paid Helen a quarter to tell him she was sick and to call my mom instead.  He did and that date led to a 50-year marriage. They continued to live in my mom’s family home on McAuley St.while raising my brother Stephen Kelsoe (Tech ‘61) and me until moving to Concord in 1966.