ABSTRACT
E. L. Trist’s nine-month appointment began July 1969, attracted a salary of US $30,000, with fringe benefits and paid removal costs. He would retire on June 30 after his sixty-eighth birthday, and each year would need employment in the three-month summer break, and would welcome opportunities for consulting during winter. Alan, who lived near San Francisco would visit the family in Swarthmore and walk with Eric talking about poetry, the youth movement, social change, and his anthropological role in the Grateful Dead. After Virginia’s death in 1966, her sisters Ruby and Pauline appeared to feel that not enough had been done for their late sister, and their relations with the Trist family became cold and resentful. When the family moved from Los Angeles to Philadelphia in 1970, Carolyn was almost seven years old. She initially had trouble adjusting, in part because she still spoke with a British accent and was teased for this at school.
