Irene Greene:  

School I came to Vaca High in my sophomore year, moving from Carmichael. If you asked teachers at that time to describe me, I believe that they would have said I was out-spoken, always fighting for some "cause", rebellious in some ways...always going for the laugh. (The teachers in Carmichael voted me as "running a union" when and if I grew up) In sports, I hated being "Sandee's little sister", but we both played on the boy's baseball team, and competitive sports were a big thing to the skinny girl in highschool. I kept score for the boy's basketball team, which may have caused a tight jaw when I got to ride the team bus. I was class president,student body v.p. and made a change of schools to Hiram Johnson in Sacto. Coming back for my senior year, it was hard to contain me. College Going to USC, as an undergrad, was exciting in many ways, but difficult, since I was married and was a custodial step-parent. I had a mentor (a professor)who let me work in film, I worked on a PBS series on a Jewish aging community, taking still photography for an exhibit, working on a book of life histories. I went to every football game, and many of the football team were inspirational to my shy step-son, taking him into the locker room, introducing him around. As an older student, wife, step-mother, I felt that I wore many hats at school. Wanting to major in film directing, I made an about face and was the only graduate in 1981 in Cultural Anthropology. My first writing, ...Expand for more