ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that When Jacqueline Walden was eleven years old; she unwrapped the presents which symbolizes her lifelong pursuit of education. The family moved to Belmont when she was twelve. The career counselor at Radcliffe directed her to the Romance Languages Department. But Jacqueline did enroll in a physical anthropology course taught by the formidable Professor Earnest Hooton. She continued her education at the only college in Mobile at the time, the Jesuit Spring Hill College. The excitement she had felt for anthropology long ago at Harvard was renewed when she became a volunteer for the natural history Museum of Orange County in 1981. The two years in Sacramento were devoted to an MA in anthropology and travel. It was interesting, anthropologically, to observe the care of elderly parents in two different cultures. Jacqueline worked with terminally ill members of end-of-life choices and interviewed World War II veterans for the national veteran's history project.
