Kathleen Hurley:  

Life Hey, greetings to old pals and classmates! As I write this I recently "retired" from my first career in public service and am currently working primarily on my real estate investments. I also have my own personnel consultant business, K. J. Hurley and Associates, which is satisfying to me and allows me flexibility in my days. I've lived in the SF Bay area since I was 21, after travels and living in Hawaii for a couple years. I've been in Oakland now since the mid-80s and like the space and beauty of the area. I love to garden and am happy to live here. I much enjoyed working on the Clarion and remember fondly newspaper staffer classmates from that time. I won five college scholarships in journalism during senior year. Alas, personal reasons kept me from accepting out of high school. I did eventually put myself through college, first with an AA at SF City College where I enjoyed being editor of the campus newspaper, and later I earned a degree in Psychology at SFSU. I got an internship with the SF Mayor's Office as part of a Department of Labor Special Master's program and that led to a job offer there. I was working in the Mayor's Employment Office when Mayor Moscone was killed, a critical and sad time in SF history. I soon was offered an opportunity in the SF Police Department to work under their affirmative action consent decree to hire more women and minorities and to develop job-related testing procedures. In a few years I had worked my way up to become in charge of the overall recruitment and selection program. The important and challenging work accomplished there is probably what I am most proud of i...Expand for more