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When I was a child, I wanted to take piano lessons and my mother surprised me by buying a used piano. I sat at the piano for hours and picked out tunes and I made my own arrangement of "Buttons and Bows" and "Music, Music, Music!" My first piano teacher wanted me to learn classical music and she gave me "Fur Elise" by Beethoven to study. That was the only classical piece that I learned to play because I really wanted to learn how to play popular music, which is why I changed teachers. My second piano teacher taught me how to play popular music by making arrangements with chords and melodies. I'm sorry that I didn't take more classical music because I would be able to play the piano better now and I really wanted the piano to be my life's work. I always loved the piano but I was really happy when my husband surprised me with a keyboard. Due to my knowledge of chords and melodies, I can play the keyboard much better than I can play the piano.

When I started Hollywood High School, I enrolled in Spanish 3 but since the teacher was like a witch, she flunked half of the class including myself. Math was my worst subject and I never did get into algebra. I took high school math and basic math. I went home crying to my mother that I would never get out of high school if I didn't change my course to a commercial one. I was an A student in typing and I was an A student in shorthand too. When it came time to graduate, I enrolled in Los Angeles City College but that all change when a Woodbury College counselor came to our door.

I took the pathfinder test and the results showed that I should major in Studio Executive Secretarial Science, the course that prepared me to work in a studio. I was on the honor roll at Woodbury and I finished the two-year course in a year and nine months with a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, which isn't recognized by any other college. When I graduated from Woodbury, I couldn't find a job in a studio because I didn't have the experience. It's also not what you know but who you know and my mother knew the wife of a theatrical agent, which is how I got my first job as a secretary for two theatrical agents. Our clients included Dan Blocker, the star of "Bonanza," Tony Dow, who starred on "Leave it to Beaver," and Mickey Rooney's son, Teddy. I would have made my job with the agents my life-time career if they had stayed together but unfortunately, they broke up their partnership, which is when I started my career

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