[3] Spencer earned a Master's degree in Education/Economics from Hofstra University and spent five years as a junior high school teacher in East Meadow, New York.
[3][4] In 1971, following her divorce from Schneider, Spencer moved to Lighthouse Point, Florida, where she started a business designing, manufacturing, and selling tennis dresses.
[3] At the age of 35, Spencer, who had married sporting-goods salesman Harold Fletcher, began attending Villanova University School of Law.
After graduating she joined the firm of Astor, Weiss, and Newman and served as a legal counsel for the Philadelphia Eagles, which were owned by her father.
[3][5] Cost-saving measures introduced by Spencer included installing a time clock, eliminating the media's pregame buffet and the steak and seafood Monday afternoon brunch, and replacing the team's jumbo jet with a smaller plane.
[6] That December, Tose considered moving the Eagles to Phoenix, Arizona as a condition of a sale of a minority share of the team to Canadian businessman James Monaghan.
[4] She also worked as a meat commodities trader, small-business consultant, and lecturer, hosted an internet radio show, and authored a business self-help book for women.