Background
Bacon-Bercey was born and raised in Wichita.
Bacon-Bercey was born and raised in Wichita.
Bacon-Bercey earned her bachelors degree in 1954 and her masters degree in 1955 from the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles). Bacon-Bercey was the first woman, as well as the first African-American, to be awarded the American Meteorological Society"s Seal of Approval for excellence in television weathercasting when she was working in Buffalo, New York in the 1970s. After working in Buffalo, she spent nearly ten years as the Chief of Broadcast Services at National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and worked on a number of other projects.
In 2000, she was honored during a three-day conference at Howard University for her contributions including: helping to establish a meteorology lab at Jackson State University in Mississippi, her endowment of a scholarship given each year by the American Geophysical Union and her work in California"s public schools.