Natalie Halvorsen:  

My goodness, where do I begin? Left SLO after Mission High and attended Business College in Oakland earning a Secretarial Degree. I attended school every day, rode the bus home, and worked until 9 PM every night in an Italian bakery to pay tuition. The wages weren't too good, but the pies I brought home were outstanding! After graduating Business College, I worked for Safeway Administrative Offices in Oakland until I moved back to SM, happily married to Marcos Vasquez with three wonderful kids. In the summer, I decided to try for unemployment so I could stay home with kids, but that wasn't to be because AHC hired me as secretary to one of their administrators to begin in Fall of '62. At that time, the high school district and AHC were one district, so when the new ERHS principal, Clark Miller, needed help I said OK since I wasn't scheduled to begin working at AHC until the fall. First day on the job, Clark asked me to stay and be HIS secretary! And together we opened ERHS in the Fall of '62, but it had to be on double session at SMHS since the Righetti buildings weren't completed. We moved into a partially built school on Foster Road in the Spring of '63 with sand getting into my typewriter because the lawn wasn't planted yet! (Yes, we did use typewriters way back then.) But it was great fun being part of a new school, working with Clark and a great staff. Divorced in 1968., but I was happy raising my three bambinos: Linda, Marcos, and Joey. That same year, I was promoted to Secretary to the Superintendent of the High School District, learning a great deal of the educational system and wor...Expand for more