Carter, Katherine Pollard

Native Texan, Katherine Pollard attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she actively participated in student publications, and received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1922.

She spent two years as a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, N.Y., but left before receiving a master's degree. Soon after returning to her family in Bay City, Texas, Pollard found work in Houston, employed consecutively as ad manager for The Woman's Viewpoint, Assistant New Business Manager for Houston Land and Trust Co., and in public relations for Will Hogg's Forum of Civics, a civic improvements promotional organization. During this time she also served as publicity chairman for the American Bank Women's convention held in Houston in 1927 and helped found the Women's Flying Club of Houston.

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