the people in the area and gave the powerless a voice. She and her husband were having trouble & Mac didn't expect them to stay together very much longer. They were intellectual, teachers, I think she taught in Hi school & he in college. Her name was Ernie Krabel. I mention her in particular 'cause she's gona show up again later...
At the time of the riots or rather the year of the riots¹⁹⁶⁸in the fall my Dad died after a bout with melanoma cancer. His doctor got him into NIH in Washington where experiments were performed? and it looked hopeful at first but then it went into his liver and the trips back & forth got too much for him & he refused a last attempt and died in the hospital at Berkeley Springs. Mac & I were just getting ready to go up to see him when the phone call came. I was out grocery shopping & Joan told me when I got home. We went up anyway to see the family Marcy & Charlie. Jean had come east a bit before he died to be with him and this was a tremendous comfort to Dad. Ethel moved into the Park View Inn for the rest of her days there in Berkeley.
Joan gave us a tussle around this time - Richard was in London studying & evidently was trying to get Joan to come over too. When we heard about it we did everything outside of chaining her to her bed to keep her from it but to no avail. The Goodmans heard about it - Richard's younger brother let it slip - and we got a phone call & an earful!!! (We met them later after this blew over when Joan & Richard were living in a community house of like-minded kids a few years later & they were very nice to us. It was Mother's Day & the kids all invited their parents over to a delicious spread of their cooking.) I was afraid Joan would lose her scholarship by going to London but no - they gave her credit even^{crazy school :)} - and took her