Beverly Holley:  

It's New Year's Eve, the last day of 2008, which seems like a good day to take a walk down memory lane and finally write my story. So... I graduated high school in January 1975 and moved to Marin, then later back to Los Altos. Had a lot of fun. saw a lot of music, worked some not -so-great jobs (bagging groceries at Safeway, and does anyone remember FotoMat's?) and eventually lucked into a job in 1979 at a biomedical start-up, Collagen Corp. Stayed there for three years working in the labs, then headed to Washington State for college in 1979, better late than never! I got married to a fellow student in 1982, and graduated from Western Washington University in 1983, 6 months pregnant at the time with my first child, Ben. We came back to California in 1984 after my brother BIll Hildebrand was seriously injured in a near-fatal automobile accident. We lived with him for a few years as he rehabilitated...Expand for more