 After college, she wrote news and advertising copy for a radio station in Welch WV and soon afterwards became a reporter for the daily newspaper the Lorain (Ohio) Journal.In the early 1970's, after a hiatus as a homemaker, she published the first of her four books advising women on career opportunities and also opened her own communications firm.Thelma Gondoleen McClung was born in 1928 in what originally was a log cabin in the Appalachian mountain hamlet of Mt.