Maryly Snow

Profile Updated: August 16, 2024
Residing In Oakland, CA USA
Spouse/Partner Still looking... suggestions welcome
Homepage www.snowstudios.com
Occupation Retired art librarian/lazy artist
Children None. I was briefly married in my 20s to 30s, been single ever since. Would not mind finding an activity More…partner at this age (soon to turn 77!)
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Stripped of PHS junior high VP office due to 2 Warnings turning into 2 Unsatisfactories in citizenship (MY PROTEST DENIED) gave my mother the opportunity she longed for to send me to Anna Head School. Totally unfair, although I loved being brainy, studying hard, not wearing make-up or being distracted by BOYS. Thank you Earl for keeping me in the PHS '62 loop! I survived the first year of the pandemic by doing obsessive repetitive pattern drawings. One of the patterns is named "Paradox." My drawings, either as prints, printed on panels, as greeting cards, and one T-shirt on Zazzle, are collectively named
Pandemic Paradoxes. The paradox is, besides the pattern so named, is that I was listening to the WORST news ever while drawing meditative, relaxing patterns. You can see them at www.snowstudios.com/portfolio_pandemic_paradox.html

Thank you to our new site admins! And for Earl's great work and yearly summaries!

School Story

I had a long life at UC Berkeley: BA Social Welfare 1966; MS in Library and Information Studies 1974; tenured librarian 1981-2006; Distinguished Emerita Librarian 2007. (The Distinguished was in lieu of a 5% merit increase when UCB was broke!) There I launched the first-ever image database on WWW 1994. Life-long visual artist with long exhibition history. See my website www.snowstudios.com. Recently moved out of artist live/work studio into a single family home for the first time, featured on East Bay American Institute of Architects tour 2013 and in Dec. 2014 issue of Diablo Magazine. House is available for small, local reunions!

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Earl remembers Carol as being in all his Havens classes. That's not the way I remember it. In the 6th grade, 4 girls from one or two of the other Havens classes (same grade) were transferred into Earl's and my class. The teachers and Mr. Brown (the principal) felt that Earl's and my class was a bit too shy, that we needed the vibrancy of Carol Christ, Carol Rose, and two others? Ginny McLeod? And who else? Those 4 girls lightened up our quiet class. I was so very excited!

But I had met Carol earlier because she lived around the corner from me. We first played together during a very rainy spell. The gutters were always flowing down Blair and Hillside. We made boats of out Sycamore leaves and popsicle sticks.

Carol and I climbed the large oak in the Crist's front yard, Carol leading the way. But my courage always failed when it was time to climb down. Luckily, these climbing adventures were on the weekends, when Mr. Crist was home. At least twice, maybe even 3 times. he had to help me out of the tree. I was very embarrassed that I hadn't learned how to do it like Carol did.

Carol and I started a sex club. We met in the large space over the Crist's garage. To join the club, you had to do 2 things: draw a picture of a naked person of the opposite sex, and then stand on the small platform and take off your pants. After initiation, we lost interest. So we started a church club, where we met with our Bibles. I had a lovely small metal cross that showed our change from the sex club to the church club. We lost interest in that too.

One summer between 7th and 8th grades, we group of girls got ahold of some  racy, sexy paperback. It could have been Lady Chatterly's Lover or something more contemporary. We were in the Crist's den looking for the sexy passages, which we would read aloud to one another. Suddenly, there were lots of boys from out class outside, listening in through the windows! I remember Den Howard and Larry Huddleson, but there were about 8 or more.

Many decades later, when Carol was married to Dr. Bob Charm, she invited me to the very grand hotel on Union Square to her daughter Terry's coming out party. What hotel was that? The one with the doorman in uniform? I wasn't going to the dance part, but just to the rooms they had rented where Terry changed into her white debutante dress. When I got there, Bob Charm was busy in an adjoining room getting dressed into his tuxedo. We waited with great anticipation to see his in a full tuxedo. When he finally emerged, he was wearing a pair of googly eye glasses, insisting he would wear these for Terry's debut. I was slightly appalled while Carol was doubled over with laughter. 

Carol, doubling over with laughter, is how I want to remember her.

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Does anyone know how to reach Roger Champion? He might live in Hawaii now.
Does anyone know how to reach Randall Jarrell? She might be in Sacramento area.
I'm looking forward to seeing the 26 folks who are coming to my house tomorrow for a mini-reunion! Maryly

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I agree with Catherine. We've reached the time of apples falling from the trees. We're all getting pretty ripe.

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I believe Jerry lived next door to the Piedmont Rec Center. I have a vague recollection of trying to get him to play tennis with me, maybe in the 5th to 7th grades. I also have a vague memory that the new courts and the pool were not in place, but that there might have been one court behind his house or the Rec Center. Maryly

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Betsy, thank you for that nice summary of Marylynn. How wonderfully strange to become step-sisters in your adult life! Be well, Maryly Snow

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I posted a short video on YouTube of myself explaining my Pandemic Paradox drawings. You might enjoy a 4 minute 19 second diversion...

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You're invited to my Open Studio this weekend and next in West Oakland. It's a terrific studio, there's lots to see and do.

The invitation is on my website at www.snowstudios.com (I can't post a PDF here). www.snowstudios.com

. 3016 filbert St at 30th St, 2 blocks west of 40th St at San Pablo Ave.

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Steve was a trooper. I remember riding on the back of his scooter. He says we went to Moe's bookstore when we were still in high school. That seemed very adventuresome to me. He liked to expand his boundaries. I believe Steve died of complications from Parkinson's Disease. He had deep tissue brain stimulation to moderate the PD. I didn't realize that the probes are left in the brain. He came to my house for a small gathering about 3 or 4 years ago, walked in 3 little horns. When I had the nerve to ask him about his horns and his PD, he said in conclusion "It's been one helluva ride!" 

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I forgot to post the announcement of my art show to the PHS website!

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I painted this picture from a number of snapshots I took when Kathy and I drove to Juniper Campground, high on Mt. Diablo. This picture shows the four peaks of Mt. Diablo -- Eagle Peak, Mt. Olympia, North Peak, and Mt. Diablo. We made it half way to Deer Flat before the weather closed in on us and we headed back to the car. We did not wish to be drenched.
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Piedmont Jr. High 1958
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Anna Head School 1962