Hall,+Dee

P.O. Box 306 Vida, OR  97488 541-896-0459 deehall@efn.org
 * Dee Hall**

**1969: **Spent 2 ½ years at UPS.  Married and divorced in 1962.  Out of money after a year at University of Calif.  I was forced to learn the joys of working and so became a travel consultant and tour leader…spent about 3 months in So. America, the Carribbean and Mexico.  Moved to San Francisco in 1964 for more travel work, also wrote tour folders.  Married and took up residence near Stanford University, divorced again.  <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spent a couple of months in Hawaii, Japan and Hong Kong last summer. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quit my job last New Years Eve and packed bags for an undetermined ski trip. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got as far as New York before breaking into a glorious case of infectious hepatitus so spent 5 weeks and a very large fortune in the hospital. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am presently heading into a masters program in social work at Berkeley. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frankly, it seems like a respectable means of not working for a year or so. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bike, play flute, read and do a little inventing. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have trained as group facilitator and done some sensitivity and encounter groups. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can’t be up in August so I’ll face north and if you’ll face south we can raise our glasses in a silent toast.


 * 1979:** Homesteading on 10 acres in the Siskiyou Mountains, along the Smith River in northern California. Paul and I are building our own home, developing gardens, raising animals (pigs, chickens, rabbits). Our son, Damien, will be 5 this Sept. I am employed part-time as grants writer for the county's CETA-Manpower Services Office. I run regularly, play a little piano, experiment with domestic arts (soap-making, flower pressing, wok cookery, etc.) and read a lot. I enjoy being a parent and a country person these days. This feels like the summer of my life. I wish I could share it with you; however, I probably won't be able to come up for the reunion.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">**2009**: Having built a handmade home (1973 - 1979), we discovered that, as back-to-the-landers, we were living in a rather poor northern California county. For several years, I was the Del Norte County CETA Manager and Paul worked in the County Mental Health Department. Unfortunately, there were too few social services in the county for all the need we saw, so Paul and I started a non-profit agency. Within five years, our growing staff was providing job training, in-patient alcohol and drug treatment, a domestic violence shelter, stream enhancement, a food bank, and crisis intervention. Our son, Damien, went to a two room school house, I chased bear and various wildlife off the deck at home, it was a sweet time. Paul and I divorced in 1986 and he moved on but I stayed as CEO for six years and then moved north in 1992. I am living on 10 acres of hillside above the McKenzie River, east of Eugene,. I work three days a week in Eugene as the grant writer for a 40-year-old collective called White Bird Clinic and I love it - it's like being part of a large dysfunctional family. In addition to grant writing, I do some event work: this summer I took a half ton of chicken and 50 volunteers to the Oregon Country Faire where we camped, barbeque'd and sold food for three days, raising $7,000 for homeless services. I have time to meditate, hike, paint and doddle about. My son is a glass artist also living in Eugene; my partner is a contractor. I do chase wildlife, but it's only away from my garden - (coyotes, turkeys and elk). Life is still sweet. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">