After Analy, I attended Santa Rosa Junior College for two years, graduating in 1967. San Francisco State was next, where I received a bachelors degree in journalism in 1969.
I met my husband, John, at SF State. We had several journalism classes together, and he was one of the editors of the student newspaper. After we graduated, we moved to Concord, where he was the editor of the Concord Transcript, and I was a general assignment reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Dispatch. I won a couple of prizes for my writing and was offered a job with the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek. By this time, John was working at the Oakland Tribune (city editor), and so we moved to the Oakland Hills. I stayed at the Times for about 7 years, "graduating" from city hall reporter to society editor. Then I was hired for the San Francisco bureau of U.S. News & World Report, where I spent another 7 enjoyable years covering news in 12 Western states.

In 1985, John was offered a very good job with the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, so we moved to Colorado, and I entertained the idea of retiring. After a month of soap operas and housework, I decided that wasn't the life for me, so I started looking for work. By lucky coincidence, the society editor at the Denver Post was retiring, and so I applied for--and got--that job.

We've really come to love living and working in Denver. Our lives have been blessed by good health, personal happiness, and the ability to stay employed in a field that is notorious for burnout and short tenures. We don't have any children, just three dogs: Diego the chihuahua, Ling the Pekingese and Millie the "terrible terrier."

In February, we finished an extensive remodel of our house (for five months, the five of us shared cramped quarters at a local Residence Inn), so it looks like this is where we'll stay.
We've really enjoyed getting to know this part of the world; our favorite places to visit are northern New Mexico, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and, of course, the Colorado high country. We did a lot of overseas traveling when we still lived in California, and had a great time seeing the rest of the world, but now we're content to stay closer to home.

I'm so happy that this virtual reunion site has been started; it is a great way to stay in touch. Love seeing all the pictures! Thanks for all the time and effort that it takes to keep something like this going.