Roberta Filzer Pearl:  

I started life as Bobby Filzer. I was raised in an Anarchist Colony in New Jersey until I was ten years old. I entered public school in the second half of fourth grade where I discovered that my name was really Roberta! My elementary and secondary school life was chaotic. In all I attended five different public schools and one private school (Elisabeth Irwin) until I graduated Washington Irving High School in 1951. I got married in 1953 while in College and had to drop out temporarily to work. I resumed my college education at Indiana University ten years later. I have four children, two home grown and two adopted from Korea. When my first two children entered school in 1963, I went back to college part time and then on to Law School, also part time, all of which took me 13 years. Upon graduating Law School (1975), I became a labor grievance arbitrator and mediator. My two oldest sons are married and I now have five grandchildren. After 39 years of marriage I was divorced. I worked five years for the Texas Office of the Attorney General from which I am now retired. I have returned to my previous profession, arbitration, which I enjoy very much. I am now in a position to enjoy my first love which is sculpting. I am the Director (Emeritus) of the Austin Sculpture Center in Austin, TX. Some of my sculptures can be viewed on this website. (Classmates knew me as Roberta (Bobby) Filzer. My name is now changed to Bobby Pearl. I have moved around quite a bit, living in Stelton, N.J.; Watchung, N.J.; Manhattan, N.Y.; Arlington, Virginia; Bloomington, Indiana; Varanasi, India; Chicago, Illinois; Stanford, California; New Haven, Ct.; and now, Austin, Tx. I've done a great deal of traveling: Paris, Italy, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Sikkhim, China, Russia, Mexico,a...Expand for more