TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - banking industry KW - artists KW - nuns KW - Catholic schools KW - professors AU - Gladys Schmitt AB - The marriage of John Reiber and Helen Cameron is tested by his resentment of her superior social class. C1 - 1950s C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Oakland; Carnegie Museum; Shadyside; Squirrel Hill; Schenley Park; Carnegie Mellon University; Point Breeze; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts C4 - Literary; Psychological CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N1 - Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known. N2 - The marriage of John Reiber and Helen Cameron is tested by his resentment of her superior social class. PB - The Dial Press PP - New York PY - 1955 RN - Gladys Schmitt (1909-72), born in Pittsburgh, graduated from Schenley High School. She attended Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) on a scholarship but transferred to the University of Pittsburgh, from which she graduated in 1932, then took a job in New York with Scholastic Publishing. She returned to Pittsburgh in 1942 and began a 30-year teaching career in the English department of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), where she founded the creative writing program. She published nine novels, many of them selections of the Literary Guild, including her million seller David the King (1946). She married the composer Simon Goldfield, her high school boyfriend. She is buried in Pittsburgh and her name is memorialized in Carnegie Mellon's Gladys Schmitt Creative Writing Center. EP - 308 p. TI - The Persistent Image ER -