Born in 1943 to Samuel and Elisabeth Johnson, Carolyn graduated from Scotch Plains High School of New Jersey. She was a Peabody scholar at the now-non-existent Western College for Women. She graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin. In Madison, Wisconsin, Carolyn met Jim Hougan in the philosophy course “Freedon, Fate, and Choice.” She became Carolyn Hougan in 1966.The Hougans lived in Alexandria and Washington from 1980 until August 2006.

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