Nana Biography

I can remember going to the movies once with Herb and Nancy, the four of us went, and right in the middle of a part where you’re letting yourself go, they turn and discuss the scenery or something. And I, I went out afterwards, and I told them, you know, you guys spoiled the movie, you talk in the middle of the good scenes, and they said, she said, “good scene? That was a good scene? 

The ultimate put down.

Yes, you know. And I wonder if intellectually analyzing such things is as much fun as… It probably is in her mind.

Different things…

Yes, that’s right.

So when you were talking about – we were talking about turning points, one of the turning points was you coming to this different kind of social life.

Yes, I loved it.

Was it hard though at the beginning because it was so different?

I was a little nervous about new associations, but everybody was so nice and so, you know, and I knew enough people – I had lived in Palo Alto and, I didn’t give up on my friends when I married.

How old were you when this happened?

Let’s see, that was 1953 and now it’s 1978. 53 from 78 is 25 years ago, and 25 from 62–37.

Yes

I was a kid. 37 years old.

And then you sort of entered a whole new – – a new husband, and …

Well, not a whole New World, because when we were first married, I belong to the Menlo country club, John was automatically a member when he married me, he took up, and so all my social friends out there were still part of my life, and he moved right into that and was accepted immediately.

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