Born in Birmingham, Alabama on November 21, 1931, Clyde Foster graduated from Parker High School in Birmingham in 1950 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Chemistry from Alabama A&M University in 1954. Foster was working as a science teacher in Dallas County school system near Selma, Alabama from 1956 to 1957 before he joined the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal as a mathematician technician.
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