Nana Biography

This was your sabbatical?

This was, no, this was… Let’s see what we did. It was a sabbatical, that’s right. I can’t remember, which came first. I believe that Carl Spaeth was Dean, so when he was Dean, do you remember, it doesn’t matter.

He was made Dean when I got here, which was in 1969.

Oh, this was before that, but we went to, maybe it wasn’t. Stanford was looking for someone to teach comparative law.

Stanford?

Yes, that may have been. They asked John if he would like to do this, and he thought it over and came home one night and just walked in and said “how would you like to go and live in Italy for a year? “And I said, “you’re kidding! “And, it turned out, let’s see, Bruce was going to be in boarding school, so Bruce was, it was about five years after we were married, I guess, maybe a little more than that. I said, “it’s great.“

So all the plans were made, we both started studying Italian. I went to the university and took Italian courses, and we went over there and stayed for nine months in Rome. And I’m just going to tell you what date – Bruce was five when we were married and he was 13 so it was seven years, just about sabbatical time. But this was not considered a sabbatical. We got another one two years later, that was a real sabbatical. This year we lived in Rome, and we went to Greece that summer, and spent four months there, or John had a job.

Teaching?

No, he worked for Andreas Pappandreo, the Greek man.

So what did he do for him?

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