I wanted to be an engineer like my father, but he discouraged it because women weren’t accepted into engineering at the time. I didn’t want to be a teacher and the only other avenue was nursing or business. Business was not for me. I liked working with people, so I chose nursing.

I worked six months after I graduated, 13 years at home, and went back in 1971 and have been working since. I’ve worked at Kaiser now in the emergency room for twenty-six years. Now I am in the surgery department. That has been good.