![]() ![]() ![]() Ernestine would nonetheless graduate from Smith College as an English major in 1929. Frank Gilbreth's sudden death delayed Ernestine's college plans by a year, as the family's finances dictated that her mother return to work immediately, carrying on the work she and her husband did as industrial/management consultants. The sequel, Belles on Their Toes (1951), picks up where its predecessor ended-with Frank, Sr., suffering a fatal heart attack on the eve of Ernestine's high school graduation. parlayed their childhood memories of efficiency experiments, in which the children were the guinea pigs, into the best-selling novel Cheaper by the Dozen. In 1949 she and her younger brother Frank B. The third oldest of twelve children (eleven of whom lived to adulthood), Ernestine grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in an unconventional household. and Lillian (Moller) Gilbreth, early scientific management experts. Ernestine Moller Gilbreth was born in New York City on April 5, 1908. ![]()
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