Rebecca Tobitt:  

After graduating in 1961 I attended UOP in Stockton where I met and married my husband Tad in 1964. I graduated in 1965 with my degrees in Education and History and Political Science. I taught in San Jose while Tad did a Master's program at Stanford and in Red Bluff until our son Jamie was born in 1967 followed by his sister Molly in 1969. Tad's work took us to the Bay Area and Pleasanton for 3 years and then to South Lake Tahoe for 5 years. I didn't go back to full time teaching but did home teaching, substituting, and private tutoring. My one claim to fame was when I was hired for a week as the private tutor for the children of Don Rickles. In 1977 we left Tahoe and moved to Fairfield where we still live. I went back to teaching full time in 1978 at the middle school level and didn't leave until I retired in 2004. I loved middle school and was fortunate to be the facilitator of the Gifted and Talented Program at our school, teaching 7th and 8th grade social science. Occasionally, I got drafted to teach English or Math (if you were in any of my math classes, please don't laugh!)but my real love is social science. Tad and I have enjoyed traveling as much as possible, visiting New England, the Middle states, Southwest, Italy, France, Germany, and the Britist Isles. In our "younger " years, we've done a lot of Europe but now we're focusing more on the US. We've had trailers on and off for almost 35 years but now have invested in a 2010 motorhome and love to pick up and...Expand for more