June Bacon-Bercey is the first African-American woman to receive a degree in meteorology, and she is said to be the first woman with a meteorology degree to do a weathercast on television.
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She got her big break at WGR-TV in Buffalo. At the time, she was a science reporter, but one day, the perfect opportunity arrived. "The chief meteorologists couldn't do the 5 o'clock," St. Claire said."It was 2 p.m. I don't know how many others, but she was the first one that knocked on the door prepared to do the 5 p.m. And she believed the public would speak, and they did, and she did not let that spot go."
In 1972, the American Meteorological Society awarded Bacon-Bercey its seal of approval. She was the first African-American woman to receive that honor."She wasn't planning on being on 'The $128,000 Question' game show, but the moment that invitation came, she just knew that was going to fund the scholarship," St. Claire said.
She used the $64,000 she won on that show to start a meteorology scholarship, and that scholarship eventually led to her funding a new lab for an HBCU.
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