ABSTRACT
We arrived in California with great anticipation and also with concerns about how we would fit into this strange culture after leaving Toronto, with a town, a university, and people and friends who had made us feel comfortable and at home. We had spent a year in California in 1959–60, but Southern California was different, a fabled lotus land where the work ethic was said to be subverted by laid back fun and games. But those concerns were soon swamped by the realities of getting to work.
