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In “the white collar bracket” the newspaper counted eight, the four former interns—McKellar, Maund, Bond, and Kane—plus four people doing “special work in army camps of a morale-building nature” sponsored by the company.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Reporters and others frequently asked Jeanette Maund and Allen McKellar to define their contributions to the greater good.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

After the departure of McKellar and Maund, Herman Smith stayed on until after the war, then went to work for the Schenley Distiller Corporation, at a reported huge salary increase to ten thousand dollars, plus expenses.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Maund, a Northerner, tried to explain her view of the South.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Jeanette Maund soon asked to stop working in the South.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Jeanette Maund quit the company to pursue a graduate degree.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

But relatives of Maund and Watson told the following in interviews for this book and with employees at PepsiCo:

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Jeanette Maund, right of the mayor won the second seat open to a minority.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

Along with McKellar, the judges had chosen Jeanette Maund, a brainy twenty-nine-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, who was a graduate of Hampton Institute, a black college in Virginia.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

“Conditions are far from perfect, of course,” said Maund in polite understatement during an interview at the time, “but if we can do what we have against obstacles, surely we need not be afraid of our future.”

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007