ABSTRACT
Jane Stevenson Day was born in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up during the depths of the Depression. In her childhood days, she was fascinated by the maps, the pictures of strange-looking people, and the stories about their lives in exotic climates and geographic settings. During World War II, she attended high school and began to trade in some of her treasured book time for boys and a broader range of extracurricular activities. Jane's college major was English, a logical choice for someone whose childhood had been spent with books. Even had there been a department of anthropology at Colorado College at that time, she suspects her choice would have been the same. By the end of her senior year, she was engaged to be married and a new war had started in a far-off place called Korea.
