Margo Pearl Nanny Obituary

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Tony English '68 said:

I always liked Margo. She was a class act. While I wasn’t in the popular group in school, she always took some time to talk. I learned so much about her and was not surprised when she was elected Class President nor was I surprised when she chose UCSB because of their math and science programs (I was quietly pleased when my youngest daughter chose UCSB; there are a lot of stories there).
I last saw Margo at The Greens at Fort Mason about 1980 (I was working at Fort Mason on a private maintenance contract) and she recognized me and came over to talk. I’ve never forgotten that.

Milton Noguchi '68 said:

My last name also started with "N", so I was seated right behind Margo in Mr. Clark's 8th Grade English Class back at Presidio Jr. High School, and got to Grade her weekly Spelling Quiz (she was always 100%), and walk up Geary Blvd. as she always went to 32nd Avenue after school every day. So, it came as no surprise to me, when she became our Senior Class President at GWHS, and also won the Schmalzie Cup that year, with Miss Adams presenting it to her (photo of that is in our '68 Surveyor Year Book)..She first became a High School Math Teacher the first 10 years of her Career, after getting her MA in Math at Mills College, but then started her own Software Company, developing Applications for the Apple Computer, featuring Math, Physics, and Chemistry Themes, and moved to Corte Madera, CA, up in Marin County. She was admired by many of her Professional Peers for the work she did, developing many of the Applications for Students by her company (I think there are video's on YouTube.com with her demonstrating "Relative Frames of Reference", in a Physics Software Lesson, developed by her company, "Interactive Software Solutions", for the Apple Computer) , and just about everybody said she will be "Sorely Missed", upon learning of her Passing. I ran into her at our 10th Alumni Reunion, where she told me about how Ruth Frankenstein had already passed away, much too soon... how it was "horrible", because she had "small kids, and everything... ". That was the last time I ever saw Margo, in person. To me, she still looked the same as I had remembered her, the style of her long hair, her facial features, everything, even going back to our Days at Presidio Jr. High. Oh, and we also talked about "Miss Gardella", the 8th Grade Math Teacher back at Presidio, and how she had lifted Margo's brother's chair up in the air, with her brother still sitting in it, carried it out into the hallway, and threw both the chair and her brother out into the hallway (well, that's what she told me, anyway). Did you know Miss Gardella and Mr. Rosen, were brother and sister? They did not even look alike, to me. All those days seemed just like yesterday... it's still hard for me to believe so much time has passed since then. I can still see, in my mind's-eye, everyone, the way they looked back then, as teen-ager's, that I had gone to school with. So many of them are now gone too. It makes me realize just how Short Life really is. So, Margo, if you're still able to watch the rest of us, from where ever you are, you are, indeed, Fondly Remembered by many, including me. <finis>