Dick Clark:  

d half of 9th grade and we became like sister and brother. If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have independence, resources, and privacy to be able to deal with the day-to-day. Joan Baez has been my heroine since about 1969. I've met her and worked with her on issues, been to over 100 Baez concerts around the world, and yet my knees still tremble in her presence. She is the main inspiration in my political and spiritual life. She is still active, even as she approaches 68 years! I moved to Florida for a while after graduation, but my first real move was to France in 1971. I lived there for one year and never wanted to return home. My mother died in 1973 and in 1974, I moved to San Francisco with 3 friends. I planned to stay a while and move to France, but it didn't turn out that way. I lived here fairly permanently, with a couple of years in Las Vegas, organizing against nuclear weapons (for the Catholic Church) and I even returned to Cleveland (Cleveland Heights) in 1978. After a number of years as an anti-nuclear organizer, I began working with the homeless in 1986. I eventually became Executive Director of the City's largest family shelter and got to meet Steve Young, Joe Montana, Robin Williams, anny Glover and other famous supporters, which now allows me to name-drop, guilelessly!