Martha Pendleton:  

After High School, I went to U.C. Santa Barbara, in music, but found that I was too shy to stand up and sing in front of anyone. From there I went to St. John's College, in Santa Fe, N.M. I LOVED it and was there for 2 years. I met my husband, Randy, when we were both freshmen at St. John's, but I was dating other people and he left St. John's. Then I went to U.C. Berkeley to get my degree in Philosophy. Randy followed me there and we got married soon after I graduated. We lived in my parent's house while they were living in Hong Kong. My father was Director of Research for Dow in the Pacific. When Randy graduated from U. C. Berkeley in Chemical Engineering, we moved to New Jersey. We wanted to be close to New York City. We didn't realize that we couldn't afford to park there, much less do anything. Our son was born there. We DID, however find the Cloisters, which we could afford and which we absolutely loved. We left New Jersey after only 2 years and moved to Boulder,CO for Randy's job. I made the decision to stay home with our children and we have never regretted it. Our daughter, Laurel, was born in Colorado. She is named after Laurel Goff, who was someone I had always liked and admired at Acalanes. Boulder was lovely, but Randy was offered a job in Ireland and he took it. We lived in a little town between Limerick and Galway which suited us. We spent a lot of time exploring that country visiting sites like Yeat's tower and Coole Park. We traveled back and forth to other parts of Europe, including London numerous times and Italy. It was a great deal of fun and we loved it. When we moved back to the states we moved to Palo Alto, CA for all of 9 months which was too bad because we really liked Palo Alto. We ended up back in Boulder, but this time we had a house in the mountains above, with gorgeous views ...Expand for more