Deborah Shapiro:  

After graduation I went off to UC Berkeley. On the first day there, I met my first husband, Larry. I was looking for the flower children and he was looking for a chick to pick up, as we both used to say and laugh. But truly he was the only person who felt like home, and after 2 quarters of strange people and also being tear gassed, CS gassed, pepper gassed, maced, and chased by some very large men in blue uniforms with really long nightsticks, I dropped out, managing to thankfully miss People"s Park. While trying to figure out where to enroll next, I did a semester at University of Miami. When I couldn't figure out where else to go, I returned to Berkeley but this time with Eileen Rubin (Julie Manolides), Carla Risolia (class of '65), and Ann Biderman (class of '69). So with my Beach High friends, Berkeley was much more fun. The next summer (1970) I married Larry, but we started off with one major problem. By then he lived in Toronto and I didn't. I stayed in Berkeley until the next summer when we decided where to live, probably one of the most beautiful places in the world, Laguna Beach. I enrolled at UC Irvine and finally got my Bachelor's degree. Larry and I divorced in 1975 but we remain close friends to this day. In fact, some may recall from the 30th reunion that I brought my "two husbands," Larry and Richard. This was Richard's idea. He thought it was hysterical. Part of why I love him! In the late 70's, I stumbled into my career, a way to combine my 2 greatest interests (other than space travel that is), math and science. It was time to continue my education, and I reall...Expand for more