In 1956 I went to Stanford, eventually became Vice President of the student body in my senior year and stayed on for eight years as Program Director of the Stanford Alumni Association. Then I went to Southern California to help start the Disney-funded California Institute of the Arts, (there were five people there when I arrived and 1200 when I left four years later).

Next I went to Washington DC as Vice President of the National Center for Voluntary Action. Back in California I managed a California Gubernatorial campaign and then had my own consulting firm for four years. For the last 27 years, I've been a partner in an international executive search firm. (See Boyden.com for more info)

In 1985 I married (for the first time) to a German Sea Captain (Konrad Wedekind) who ran the West Coast/South Pacific operations for a German steamship company (Hamburg Süd) and is now retired. Theoretically I’ve just retired,  but keep getting roped back in. My last search was for the President of the American University of Paris.

We don't have kids. We live in San Francisco and have a little house in the Napa Valley, where we celebrate holidays with friends and spend time when we can.  We travel a lot and enjoy it.  Just returned from almost two months in South America.   But for all that travel, I haven’t been to Corcoran for almost 30 years -- and the reunion in Reno was the first time I had any real contact with this class in 50 years! (How could that be?)

Read about one of Julia and Konrad's adventures

Pirates!