By Barbara Frankel
Irene Trowell-Harris vividly remembers the day her life changed. One of 11 children who grew up on a small farm in Aiken, S.C., she worked the cotton fields with her family. One day, she looked up and saw an airplane.
“I said that someday I was going to be up there, teaching and working in an airplane. I never even knew anyone who had been in an airplane but I just wanted it so much,” she recalls.
