In Memory

Daralyn Foodym - Class Of 1965



 
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03/08/15 02:57 PM #1    

Kay Hale (1963)

The summer after Darallyn graduated from Westbury, Daralyn and her family moved to San Francisco.  That fall Daralyn attended Northwestern University on a scholarship.  Over the next few years Daralyn received four degrees.  In addition to a B.A., she received two M.A. degrees and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.  Her area of interest was in medical anthropolgy.  Combining her love of travel with her academic interests spent  time conducting research in Denmark.  Her dissertation title was Cultural Aspects of Vnereal Disease in Denmark!  After graduate school she taught at the University of Florida and part time at Stanford.  While Daralyn spent time at Northwestern and the University of Florida, most of her life after high school was spent in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On the personal side, she loved to cook, treasured time with friends, and continued a life-long love of traveling--especially Europe, and in particular France.  She married and divorced.  From that marriage camea her son Lars.  Motherhood was extremely important to Daralyn.  She went to great lengths to facilitate Lars' development and education.

Like her mother and her mother's mother, Daralyn developed cancer in her mid 40s.  How she dealt with it tells you much about Daralyn  She became a member of a group therapy for women with breast cancer.  The group was led by David Spiegel, a Stanford psychiaterist, who subsequently wrote a book on the positive effects of group therapy on women with beast cancer. After her cancer was diagnosed, Daralyn took her son on a trip to Europe.  She led her life as fully as possible despite her cancer.  She died in the summer of 1994. 

Her son Lars graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and married.  The young woman he married  has been desceribed as extremely bright, academically oriented, and a high achiever.


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