Jonathan Dreyer

In spite of a few awkward incidents involving pyrotechnics and psychedelics, I did graduate from UC Berkeley with a degree in Bacteriology; those were heady days, UCB in the '60s! I then worked for a year at Stanford University in Molecular Biology, saved my money, and took off to see the world.

Starting in Europe, I hitch-hiked to Morocco, then east to Egypt, then south all the way to South Africa. At the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg I worked for 6 months for Paleoanthropologist Philip Tobias, excavating and preparing fossils of early (Australopithecine) man. From there I continued east to India, South-East Asia, Indonesia and Hong Kong, from where I worked my way to Seattle on a freighter. The entire two-year journey cost me $1300; how's that for an illustration of inflation over 33 years?

I trained in Medical Technology at St. Joseph's Hospital in San Francisco, and started a career at the San Francisco Veterans Hospital. Along the way I picked up a Masters in Clinical Chemistry from UCSF, and spent much of my time teaching Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine to UCSF Pathology Residents, and fiddling with computers. I retired in 1996 and moved to Mill Valley, where I've helped my now ex-wife raise my two step-children. I keep busy with free-lance editing for hi-tech (computer and bio) companies, and have done a couple of kitchen and bath remodeling projects for friends.

My first retirement stunt was driving a Toyota 4Runner from Mill Valley to Tierro del Fuego (the tip of South America). See my Web page: http://www.well.com/user/dreyer I've since been indulging a lifelong lust for travel, seeing everything before it's all too late (57, yikes!) Climbed Kilimanjaro year before last, and am now dreaming of Central Asian deserts, the Silk Road, etc.

I've been married and divorced twice, lost both parents, am still reasonably optimistic, and highly value my sibling tribe of Dreyers, all of whom live in Northern California

I'm at (415)388-5839 dreyerj@pacbell.net