[2] As a child, she was cast from a field of 12,000 4-H members to play a small part in The Green Promise (1948)[1] as farm girl Jessie Wexford, the sister of Natalie Wood's character's love interest.
[3] Wood and LaDuke shared a tutor who taught them both string games as well as their school curriculum.
[2] She earned a master's degree in mathematics, but was unable to obtain a teaching position with it because the schools she applied to only hired men.
[5] After completing her doctorate, LaDuke spent the following thirty years as a faculty member of the department of mathematical sciences at DePaul University.
[7] An annual lecture series on Women in Mathematics, Science, and Technology at DePaul is named after her.