Nana Biography

Inger said he wants to know what you’re doing and what John’s doing, and I said, I hope you tell him what John’s doing. She said, “oh, don’t worry. “  (laughs). But, he’s divorced. He has a girlfriend, last Easter, a year ago, Len and Edgar went down to the country in Carmel Valley, where Clyda  lives with her ski instructor, she, her two boys came, Don came, the girlfriend came, and they had a big family dinner.

Who was all there? Question 

Don, his fresh girlfriend, who is a Vassar dropout, she’s in her 20s, Clyda, and the new ski instructor husband, who is younger, Clyda's two children, and their family. One of them married, one of them, crippled, Len and, Larry. (laughs.) I said, it sounds like a Mötley Crüe. I said, “what is it like? “and Inger said it was awful. But she said I have a feeling that he, Dan would like to see everything sort of made up. He would like to do that, and I said, “Either, I’d be happy, or I can’t help it. So that’s enough about the divorce. I don’t know how much longer.

I think I was talking about, dwelling on the horrors of the mechanics of the divorce., But two years, well, it was a year before, you know, now, when you get a divorce, you can get it right away, but when I got divorced, it’s one year before you can make it final or you can remarry or anything like that. my ex was dying to get married again, and I couldn’t care less. So I was sort of happy that there was that year and he was sort of frustrated, and I guess I was a little nasty inside about it. 

Anyway, I had a year where I was supposed to be very careful about my social conduct, I was afraid that things might happen to me the way that I would be proved an unfit mother, and they would take the children away, they were that vicious about things. One friend of mine said, “why don’t you let them have the kids, they give them back in three days. “ (both laugh.). I didn’t. And so I had a very good life. My mother came out and stayed in the house. I went out with people, but I always was with a chaperone or another couple. I never went out with another man alone that whole year. When that year was up and the divorce was final and they were married the day after that, oh no, it was incredible. Well, I think they been staying together, I don’t know. Then I begin to enjoy life quite a bit then. I went out, I had several bows, I was in in my 30s then, so that there were lots of people around. Everyone sort of and invited me to parties and I did have a good time. I think that Mylife mostly, when I look back on it, was fun. I did, I was very active politically, and I got interested in the United world federalists right after the war was over, and we were still married, 1947, just a minute was war was over, we came back to Palo Alto, and Myer Junior came to Palo Alto high and made a talk about world, peace, and the world federalists, and everybody in Palo Alto went to it, and we did, and we got really enamored of the idea, and joined, and Don became the chapter chairman, not only was it a great thing to be into, but it was socially acceptable in those days.

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