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Age helps woman, 80, in new jobBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -Theodora Kroeber Quinn findsnothing unusual about joining the University of California Board of Regents at the age of 80.“Some people are through at 40. And some people are just getting started,’’ she says, adding that age has helped her become “more focused and a little clearer about some things. ”Not only that, but she says that at her age she has “less to cover up’’ and is “more likely to say what I think.Recently appointed to the board by Gov. Edmund Brown Jr., Mrs. Quinn says she hopes to contribute “a different angle of vision, a point of view that comes from being a woman anda writer.’In announcing her appointment, Brown said, “I’m endeavoring to find people who can bring to the meetings a level of intellectual insight appropriateto the university.Until her appointment, Mrs. Quinn was probably best known as the author of “Ishi in Two Worlds: The Last Wild Indian of North America.The book chronicled the life of the last living Yahi Indian, who stumbled into civilization in 1911 and lived the last years of his life at the University of California museum.Her first husband, anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, studied Ishi and became one of his closest friends. The book was aimed at a narrow academic audience but sold rapidly after its 1961 printingShe still has enormous correspondence as a result of the book and for years people have come to her door to talk with her about it. Some have cried.“It has made me feel very humble and, really, it’s a strange thing, a little frightening, when something you do has this much effect,” MrsQuinn says.She is intimately involved inthe subject of generation-gap marriages. Her first husband was 20 years her senior. He died at the age of 84 in 1961. Her husband of the past nine years, John Quinn, is 36.She wrote in a recent essay: “Crossing generations is a way of life too aberrant, too special except for some few, particularly when it is the man who is young, the woman old.”For the past two years, she has been editing the last of Kroeber’s unpublished manuscripts on Indian folklore and has been writing projects which at first caused her to turn downBrown’s appointment.“I absolutely felt I shouldn't take on a new thing, she says, but her family — three sons who are college professors and a daughter who is a writer — urged her to do it.I1I»II
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