Noelle Gillies:
CLASS OF 1983
San Marcos High SchoolClass of 1983
Santa barbara, CA
Chabot CollegeClass of 1997
Hayward, CA
University of California - HistoryClass of 1990
Berkeley, CA
La Colina Junior High SchoolClass of 1980
Santa barbara, CA
Cathedral Oaks SchoolClass of 1977
Santa barbara, CA
Noelle's Story
Life
After 1983, I went to City College, went on the Cambridge semester abroad w/ them(and Lisa Steadman's brother Lance). In August 1986 my mother died of lung cancer, then I transfered to Cal Berkeley in Jan 1987 where I majored in history and lived in the student co-op system, and got heavily involved in that.It took me 7 years to get a BA.Then after graduating I was involved in the underground art and music scene in San Francisco.I then enrolled in Chabot College and got another degree(health information Technology).Me and Robert lived in Berkeley but our landlord wanted to live in the house.It was 1997, the height of the dot-com boom and housing was hard to find.So we moved to his parents in New Hampshire.I got a job in a hospital in Boston and Robert bought us a 1 bedroom house in the Brighton neighborhood.Boston was good for my career but not my social life.We longed to return to CA but the time was not right until this spring when I got a medical records coding job in Hayward. I moved on June 30, leaving behind Robert and the cat.They are on their way.
PS we are marrying, finally, after 11 years of togetherness(written in 2003)
We now live in San Jose. I work at O'Connor Hospital.
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I took my first yoga class at the Santa Barbara YMCA in November 1985 and have been practicing yoga ever since, seriously since 1998(Kripalu yoga in MA,Iyengar-inspired in CA).My influential teachers are Angelena Craig, Julianne Rice and Joyce Anue.
>I am also a fan of Esalen Institute in Big Sur and their healing hot springs.
School
I'll be honest and say that my years at San Marcos were not very fulfilling.Probably very few remember me because I did not say much, I did not have the emotional intelligence to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence skillfully.I did well in school, though I did not really distinguish myself, no AP classes, just whatever would be transferable to UC.As for my SMHS Social Life,what social life? I
would rather not share that here, though I am grateful to AFS and Yearbook for a social outlet(I am still friends with someone I met at Yearbook, SR yr).MY years at Cal Berkeley were challenging, and where I felt I could be myself, especially in the democratic atmosphere of the co-op system.
PS Elected to the Board of Directors of Umunhum Brewing, California's first co-op brewing company
Recently found some of my photos from the yearbook on Ancestry.com I must be getting old.
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