Nana Biography

That sounds really inappropriate to you? 

Well, I have lots more things that I was thinking about., That are happier than that. One thing I never talked about was all the wonderful trips I’ve had and living that I have done. When John and I were married in 1953 we were married on April 1, and he was still working , and so he planned that summer to go to Europe and get a degree at the Hague Academy of international law, and he had his way paid over and back, and he was gonna be there. I didn’t want to leave the kids for the whole time, so I luckily had my mother who came out and stayed with them, and I had a marvelous maid, who did all the housework and cooking, and so she really had nothing except the children and drive them around, and she was younger than and could drive the car and do the marketing. 

And we went over in the first part of June, and flew my first trip across the Ocean, 22 hours, I think it was, two Amsterdam, and landed there at four in the morning and nobody met me. Jon had a plane that was three or four hours, I’ll never forget. I got up the plane and everybody was talking some other language, it was so exciting. And we had about a month in Holland and France, and then came home, and from that time on– it was just it was just like a baby with Kandy. It was so exciting for me, this part of my life, this being able to travel. And then when he came back to work at Stanford.

When was that? 

He came to work at Stanford in 1953 the year we were married. 

Oh, the same year! 

He was fired from his job at Santa Clara, you know the story.

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