My Background

When I look back at those activities of 1980, I think of it as the time when I got introduced to the realm of political activism. I had first come to South Africa ten years earlier in June, 1970, as an undergraduate student, mostly looking for a travel experience. I chose South Africa because my high school had an exchange student from there, whom I became good friends with. When she left the US, we agreed that the next thing was for me to visit her – which I did!