Beverly Cleary books
Bevery Atlee Bunn born McMinnville April 12, 1916
- farmer Chester Lloyd (1887-1951) and schoolteacher Mable Atlee Bin (1887-1971), raised Presbyterian
- moved to Portland Grant Park neighborhood
- B.A. UC Berkeley
- B.A. U. Washington
- married Clarence T. Cleary 1940, who died 15 Jun 2004 (age 94)
- active 1950 to 2005
died Carmel-by-the-Sea March 25, 2021 (age 104), buried Pike Cemetery Yamhill OR west of NW Hacker Road
A Girl From Yamhill
PSU Lib PZ9.5.C538 A3 1988
Pleasant
- p228 Grant high school French classes aimed at reading knowledge, not speaking. Lucky students, those vowels are murder, especially with undiagnosed severe hearing loss.
- p274 ... except for coaches who taught history ...
p276 1934 film Of Human Bondage
My Own Two Feet
PSU Lib PZ9.5.C538 A3 1995
Beverly Cleary college years, through marriage and house at 1091 Creston Road in Berkeley
- p001 September (1934) forest fires (where?)
- p005 Great grandfather built the first mill in Oregon at Williamette Falls
p005 voile bedspread
- p007 DEPEW ??? painted on rooftops
p015 Rickenbacker automobile
p040 mangle
- p046 in 1930s Oregon was considered "rock-solid" (earthquake proof)
- p047 Before frozen orange juice, cull oranges used for fertilier
p058 no daughter of theirs would work at Meier& Frank
p079 trench mouth
p081 assignment read Madame Bovary without a dictionary
p091 Stebbins Hall student housing
- p095 smell of tomato catsup from cannery down on the flats
p100 James Thurber "Humor is best that lies closest to the familiar"
p104 new San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge opened November 1936
- p105 campus myth that students entered the Engineering Building and were not seen for four years.
- p106 after graduation, engineers more interesting
- p106 meets Clarence Cleary from Sacramento at Assembly Dance
p106 dated Wilfred British physicist working with Ernest Lawrence
p113 Clarence boardinghouse room was filmed in The Graduate
- p114 nother did not like that Clarence was Catholic
- p124 "In every exam I have ever taken, someone, almost always a man, arose from his chair long before the Campanile struck the hour, dropped his blue book on a table at the front of the room, and walked out, leaving the rest of us to wonder if he was brilliant and found the exam so easy that he finished quickly or if he found the exam so difficult that it was hopeless."
- p125 Psych 170 got a B, "but where were all the A's I was used to?"
- p126 home to Portland, Sherwin-Williams "Cover the Earth" lightbulb animated sign
- p131 January 17 193? 85yo grandfather dies
p145 Bertrand Bronson course "The Age of Johnson"; years later told wife how much pleasure her husband's course had given. "I'll tell him. He often wonders."
- p160 Clarence job at Department of Employment in Sacramento
p255 author Harvey Ferguson and Oregon author H. L. Davis
p256 July 1949 letter from Elisabeth Hamilton, book editor at Morrow
- p259 Sara
- p260 Walked down Euclid Avenue (2.2 miles south from Grizzly Peak Blvd.)
- Tees one block west of Cory Hall at Hurst, north of campus)
- Sather Gate Book Shop
- that nickel