Went to Cal Berkeley after BHS. Majored in Sociology at a very exciting time, just pre-Free Speech - and went out to save the world. To Minneapolis, actually, where I worked for a fair housing outfit helping integrate housing. Then went into social work for Hennepin County - child welfare, licensing foster homes - I'd married Pete after my sophomore year in college, and when he got his PhD we moved to Iowa City for his first job and our first child, Rachel, born in 1964.

Then headed back to California - UC Santa Barbara for 7 years, another baby, Daniel, in 1966, and then to Toronto, Ontario. Great city! I started teaching French there under special provisions for native speakers. Three years in Toronto and then in 1972 when McGovern and Eagleton were running for office, we came "home" to Columbia, MO, excited to get involved in politics again…of course, we all know what a fiasco that was. Anyway, I guess this is where I was fated to root after my nomadic life.

My husband and I split in 1975, I went back to school and got a Masters Degree in Education and started teaching Reading in a Junior High School. Somewhere in there my kids grew up, went to college and out into the world. Rachel is an associate professor in English at the State University of New York at Geneseo, she married Bill in 1995, and they have a little girl, Maude, who is 7 years old; and Daniel is an attorney working in the Attorney General's office after a stint as policy advisor to the Governor, married Cindy in 2002, and they have a little girl, Ella, who is 10 months old.

I married Jack in 1980 - he teaches in the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri, and I acquired a huge step-family that now includes 14 grandchildren! We really like Columbia, a small college town basically in the middle of nowhere, but on the crossroads to everywhere (I 70) so we do get visitors. We go to concerts and to plays, Jack goes to football games, and we travel quite a bit - to visit grandchildren and children, and since I started teaching French in '85, to France to get recharged and updated. Last summer I spent a month in Lyon, France, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, studying the Holocaust. My mother also lives in Columbia in a retirement center - she's 97 and doing well, considering.