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About you

Favorite quote:

To remember is to reenter and be riven. - Harold Brodky

Age:

Locations

City:

Sausalito

State:

California

Country:

UNITED STATES

Where did you grow up?:

Piedmont CA

Family

Describe your immediate household:

Me, husband, two cats

How many children do you have?:

none

How many grandchildren?:

Any great-grandchildren?:

none

More about you - details

Describe some of the important experiences of your life:

My father's hero's death in World war II, my husband's stroke.

What's your biggest regret?:

Not anticipating the nation's financial collapse; therefore not taking the right steps.

List your most inspiring heroes.:

My father, my husband, Barack Obama (he's in danger from within and without, and he knows it), Nien Cheng, author of "Life and Death in Shanghai,"Capt. James Doolittle, Louie, a Laborador retriever, who entered a burning house to try to save a child.

List your favorite movies.:

The Third Man, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's Eleven, Dangerous Liasons (Malkovich, Close), Godfather II, 8 & 1/2, The Leopard.

List the most recent books you have read.:

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Gifted Gabalon Sisters, Lorraine Lopez

Who are your favorite musicians?:

Mozart, Chopin, Roy Orbison, Coldplay

Where would you most like to travel?:

Hawaii

What is your educational background?:

Stanford graduate

List the most interesting people you have known or met.:

As a journalist I interviewed Jerry Rice, Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow (physics), NASA SETI directors, Barney Oliver and Jill Tartar (on whose life the Jodi Foster movie CONTACT is based) Joan Chen, John Madden, Michael Bishop, Nobel Laureate (medicine) Michael Boskin, economist, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton

What organizations do you belong to?:

The Sausalito Womans Club, Stanford Alumni, Marine Mammal Center, Acheivement Awards for College Scientists, San Francisco's various museums and the Academy of Sciences, AARP.

If you had an extra $100,000 to give away, what would you do?:

I'd target the best program for coral reef research and give it the money.

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