Margot's Adventures

A memoir of a life beginning in 1930s Beverly Hills, her mother's shop in the Beverly Hills Hotel, attending Beverly Hills High School, marrying and moving to Hawaii. She was in Hilo when the 1960 tsunami devastated the town. In Honolulu, she finished her bachelor's degree and recalls being a social worker for mentally ill clients. On moving to Berkeley in 1968, she obtained a doctorate at UC Berkeley and worked in research for the State Health Department, and has stories about unique Berkeley.She tells of her travels were to war torn Germany in 1954; the UN Women's Conference in China, 1995; a tour an Iran in 2007 with Fellowship of Reconciliation; Greece with family. Her second husband, Bob Purdy built a Vari-Eze plane in their house and they flew it across country many times. In 2000 she was arrested while protesting the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and spent 5 days in jail. In recent years while in retirement she has been politically active.