School Story:
I was born in 1948 in San Mateo CA. My dad was in the army, so I lived all over the place, including Japan and a while in Europe. I started school in Oakland, CA, then Sausalito, San Francisco (while I was living at the Presidio), next Ft. Lewis, Washington, back to, Mt. view, then the Presidio again, where my mother died in1956. Next, we went to Ft. Bliss Texas where my dad went to NIKE missile school. After he finished school. We moved to Neptune, New Jersey, where I went to second worse school I had ever been in. Next, we moved to Homedel, NJ where I was in a great 2 room school house. Next on to Niagara Falls which was a passable, but not too good school. Finally, we got transferred to Fort Niagara, which was a historic and nice place to live.
I went to a new school system in Lewiston NY, for 6 & 7th grades. Finally, we moved to Grand Island NY, an island in the Niagara River that was a wonderful place to live. I went to Sidney JHS for 8th and 9th grades. Great school and teachers. They talked me into taking Latin. All they had were Spanish, Latin, and French. That was a great school! They did not have a 10 th grade on the island, so I had to go to Riverside HS in Buffalo. A horrible school. The history teacher was so bad that I walked out and complained at the office. They said he was their only teacher with a PHD. Yea, ‘Piled Higher and Deeper’ in shit! They did switch me to another class with a great teacher! Meanwhile, my geometry teacher was ill most of the year. There was no one to teach geometry, so I did it much of the year. I scored 100% in the NY regents’ exam I took that year.
After that, my dad was transferred to Marin county so I could be a CA resident. We lived in Tiburon and then Corte Madera. I went to this wonderful high school, Redwood HS. Fantastic school.
Finally, I graduated and went to UC Berkeley. I was a physics major. I took a computer course and fell in love with computer science and when they opened the department of Computer Science, I switched to that, while still keeping up my physics and math studies. In my senior year, I was a grad resident at Freeborn Hall where I met my husband, Ed Logg.
I graduated with a BA in computer science, and since my future husband had one more year to go, I went to grad school in the College of Engineering and got MS in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
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He went to Stanford for grad school, and I found my job of a lifetime at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where I worked from Jul 1, 1971, until I retired on Jan. 1, 2007 as basically an R&D Computer Scientist. It was a fantastic job, and I never did the same thing twice. My job assignments often began with ‘we need something to take care of this’.
I did everything from developing data acquisition systems, interactive data analysis systems, and developing equipment test systems and a data base for tracking equipment maintenance and repairs.
In 1990 the man who hired me at SLAC came to me and said we have this thing called the internet coming and we need to have something to monitor it and tell us how it is performing. That is when I switched to networking. I gave talks for years on my work, and one time I was introduced as the ‘Mother of network Monitoring’. I went home, and told my kids, and they said ‘get the license plate’. My license plate had been ‘INETMOM’ since then.
Since I retired in Jan 2007, I have travelled the world. 4-6 times a year I am off to somewhere. My favorite place to visit is Kenya and Tanzania. I am going back for my 7th month long safari this July. This year I am also off to Mongolia, and Tasmania, places I have not been yet. Life has been fantastic!
