Lorraine Baur:
CLASS OF 1964
Renton High SchoolClass of 1964
Renton, WA
Lorraine's Story
After High School, I went to the Univ. of Washington for a couple years. I headed for San Francisco in 1967 as an original bone fide hippie. I started studying Chinese language and Buddhism in 1969 and in 1969 I traveled to Keelung Taiwan to be ordained as a Buddhist Nun. I spend 14 years traveling in the Far East and teaching Buddhism and translating Buddhist texts in San Francisco. In 1976, my group purchased the entire grounds and buildings of the then closed Mendocino State Hospital in Ukiah California. I wrote, produced and recorded three albums of Buddhist Songs set to western music. In 1982 I left the monastery and entered the "real world". I was married in 1985 and my son Tyler James Good was born in Ukiah in 1987. In 1990 I went back to school, g...Expand for more
ot a BA in Liberal Arts from Sonoma State College. In 1992 I started law school in Santa Rosa California. I graduated in 1996 and passed the California State Bar that year. I practiced law in Mendocino County and also in the first district of the Federal Courts in San Francisco for nine years and retired in October of 2005.
Tho I have lived in California now for 42 years, I still consider myself a Seattleite. Throughout the years my son and I have visited my folks in Lakeridge twice a year, and, for better or worse, I still consider the Lakeridge House my home. In the summers we camp, hike and hang out in the Olympic Peninsula and the North Cascades.
Well, there it is, for what it's worth. I am looking forward to the reunion and seeing you all again.
Loni
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