After finishing her studies at the Western College in Ohio State, majoring in political science and history, she continued her studies in Britain under a Fulbright-Hoys Scholarship.
在美國俄亥俄州牛津城西方女子學院時，她主修政治學及歷史，之後又得到傅爾布萊特獎學金，赴英主修軍事與政治。