Margaret Area:  

After high school I studied at San Jose State, but then dropped out to go to work, a decision that I would come to regret. I'd been unhappy living at home, and I needed to get away and to be on my own. I told myself I could always come back and finish school later. While at SJSU I became engaged to a fellow student from New Jersey. I moved to New York expecting to get married, but the engagement didn't last. I loved New York, though, and spent several more years there. I was a computer operator on Wall Street, a medical assistant to four ob-gyns, a secretary for a Madison Avenue ad agency and an office manager for a small film production company. In my free time I developed a lifelong love for classic films thanks to New York's many revival theaters. I also was a volunteer for a political campaign and acted in a children's theater. I loved the excitement of living in New York City, but my years there were often lonely, and I was constantly homesick for California. I returned to the Bay Area on my 25th birthday. The following year I went to work for KRON-TV Channel 4 in San Francisco, where I would spend the next 33 years. I began my career there as an executive secretary. Later I moved to the promotion department, where I wrote announcer copy and press releases, assisted in production, managed our inventory of on-air promos and scheduled them on the station log. My ultimate ambition was to earn a First Class FCC License and transfer to the Engineering Dept., wh...Expand for more