We were fossil hunting. So, we were going to all the big fossil sites and at that point, I mean you could go out and dig around. I mean, a lot of these sites weren’t even protected and we’d go to various museums and we were camping the whole time. Read More
while you were doing this about kids and maybe connecting them with nature?… Read More
That kids, if you got them out, after the first couple of days of sort of complaining that they didn’t have, of course the kids didn’t have then what we have now for kids anyway. I mean, mostly they would miss their TVs or goin’ to the movies because there… Read More
You’re learning anything about keeping the attention span of a very young active group of students?… Read More
Well, I was, yeah, I was teaching junior high mathematics in Palm Springs and on summer, one of the other teachers and I decided to put together this field trip to take the kids out fossil hunting. And I mean, when I look back at it and I think about… Read More
of activities you were doing there?… Read More
I love the whole thing.” So, it made sense to me as soon as I graduated, I could finally get out of Chicago and the winter and the snow and the rain and go to California where it doesn’t snow and rain much. And so, I started planning for that… Read More
So, I knew I could do that. I knew I could program computers and I knew I could teach. So I thought, now I can go get my degree in what I’m interested in. Even if I’ll never maybe be able to work in a field like that. So. So… Read More
And naturalists traveling with junior high students for a month. Tell me about the junior high students. Read More
How did that kinda start?… Read More
So, I basically enrolled in Loyola in what was a biology major, but I got really lucky and had a major professor that was a young herpetologist and we clicked really quickly. So, we created, I think I was the only person majoring in what I was majoring in in… Read More
How did you decide on California?… Read More
I had an aunt and uncle that had retired out to Southern California. And when I was in my, between my junior and my sophomore junior year of college, sort of, they gave me the money and flew me to California. If I couldn’t drive there, I had never been. Read More
I actually didn’t decide to change. As you’re aware and I assume still is, Loyola’s a Jesuit university, and at it had just become co-ed a few years before I entered it. And I took my first math classes there at that level of junior level. So, and it turned… Read More
My answers are accurate.” And he said to me, “Loyola has never graduated a woman math major, and you will not be the first, so I would suggest you change your major because in order to graduate as a math major from Loyola, you’re going to have to pass my… Read More
What was your next move?… Read More
Well, my next move was the day of my last final exam, which was in the winter. I didn’t like school. I never liked school. I didn’t like high school and I didn’t particularly like college. They were just things that I had to do in order to be a… Read More
Well, it wound up to be in computer science. That’s a whole different story, but I got my degree from Loyola, yeah. Undergraduate degree and then I left town. I actually didn’t even stay for the ceremony of walking down the aisle and getting the piece of paper. I said,… Read More
How did you change?… Read More
Why did you decide to change?… Read More