Leslie Mueller:  

Here's what I sent to Sue in 2010, with some updating from 2014: I did go to college for four years in Oregon, went to UC Berkeley for library school and worked as a librarian for a number of years. I got married unsuccessfully once, for 2 years, and successfully after that -- 40 years, 2 children and no grandchildren yet. I've been in CA since I came here for grad school. Not where I planned to wind up, and I'm still very fond of Oregon, but luckily both my husband and I have relatives in Oregon and Washington so we've spent a lot of time up and down the coast over the years. The only time I've been back East since Christmas 1962 was the 2002 visit to Washington when I visited with Franny for a day and she drove me around to various places I wanted to see again, including a visit to SRS which was uncannily the same in spite of hosting a church-based school. Apparently they haven't had the funds to fix anything up. Unfortunately, they also haven't had the money to keep it up in some ways so it was quite shabby. When my husband and I moved from San Francisco to the suburbs and I had kids, I lost the pace in the library world which was just then converting to computerization, so I spent some time teaching in various capacities, mostly substituting, and then started to work for the League of Women Voters on a long-running ...Expand for more