Marilyn McCabe:  

Life After graduating from SDHS, I was able to complete two years of college before my financial situation, in combination with the lack of availability of evening classes at UCB, brought about what I had thought would be a pause in my college studies. At that point, I was able to better my financial situation at a faster pace through working than I could have by staying in college, so I was forced to consider attending college a luxury that I could no longer afford. I married in 1972, but was not able to successfully carry a child to term until the birth of our older son in December of 1980, and our second son followed in January of 1983. However, that turned out to be the totality of my successful pregnancies; after my second son was born, I was returned to my previous state of only miscarriages. I worked outside the home, in the business world in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, until we moved to Clovis in 1983, when I began working with my husband, who worked out of his office in our home, so that I could also be available for my children when they were small. One high point of our lives was the six months in 1985, during which my husband's employer sent our whole family to live in Holland while my husband was project manager for the development of a new European headquarters for the firm in Amsterdam. We lived the local lifestyle in a small village near Utr...Expand for more