My mother's family, also, had come west to Oregon. Eventually, they sent my mother to college and it was here that my parents met. Reed College was the choice of almost all my father's brothers and sisters - a private liberal arts school with a reputation for high scholastic achievement and encouragement of individuality on a small beautifully landscaped campus dotted with brick buildings topped by the figures of gryphons. My father was a year ahead of my mother and was following both of his older brothers into the field of psychology. My mother became an English literature major. I wish I could ask them now how they were drawn together in that beginning.