NOTE: I originally wrote this page in 1998 (when my hair was still brown) and updated it in 1999. I'm leaving the code as is, to show how far Web design has come in ten years.View the page source to see how primitive the code is.) Even worse, download the source code and run it through Dreamweaver's validator. Aarg.
This page has no CSS, and it has tables for layout in a few places. But, I have updated the content and added a few photos. (Veda Lewis did the opening cartoon.)
BARBARA ZUKIN HEIMAN
Personal Statement
I am a third generation Californian and a third generation educator.
My grandmother moved to Los Angeles in 1904, and graduated from State Normal School (the precursor of UCLA). She taught first and second grade in downtown Los Angeles for 35 years. Most of her students lived near Olivera Street, China Town, or Japan Town. She simultaneously taught them how to read, how to sing, and how to speak English.
My mother taught a variety of subjects during the second world war, including home economics, cooking, and wood shop. Later, she earned a masters degree in nutrition, and taught Head Start parents how to give their children healthy food on a low budget. Now that she has retired, she has become a Macintosh fanatic. She recently published a charity cookbook, ORT Cooks Around the World, using her scanner and Microsoft Word to prepare the camera-ready pages.
I studied anthropology at UCLA and then UC Berkeley, earning a Ph.D in 1972. My areas of specialization were linguistic anthropology, primate social behavior, and the biological foundations of language. To learn more about natural and artificial languages, I studied FORTRAN and Algol, and began a database on Tzeltal ethnobotany.
Upon receiving my degree, I taught anthropology in interdisciplinary settings at CSU Hayward, CSU Sacramento, and the University of the Pacific. Later, we moved to Southern California, where I served on the Orange County Human Relations Commission and worked as an applied anthropologist coordinating the Orange County Refuge Forum.
The personal computer enters my life.
- We bought an Apple 2+ in 1982 to manage my husband's psychiatric
practice. I kept the business books, wrote letters, and played Dungeons
of Doom with my children.
- In December of 1994 I went to the computer store to buy
some disks, and returned with a Macintosh 512 (Fat Mac) to "test drive."
I fell in love, and it never went back to the store. In the first week we
had the computer, I used MacWrite and MacPaint to "publish" twenty pages
of original writings of my son's fourth grade class.
I had a new life goal--to learn everything I could about Macintosh computing.
- When we moved to the Sonoma Valley in 1985, I volunteered in my son'selementary school teaching both kids and staff to use their Apple II's. Soon I had developed a consulting practice, where I was writing databases, teaching programs, doing computerized accounting, and troubleshooting operating system problems.
Courses Taught
I was invited to teach an Introduction to Macintosh class for SRJC in the Spring of 1990. This was tremendous--not only could I do what I loved, but I had peers--an entire faculty of computer enthusiasts from whom I could learn. And learn I have!! Since I have been at SRJC, I have learned and taught the following subjects:
- Intro to Mac
- Intro to Personal Computing
- Computer Literacy
- Microsoft Word, Beginning and Advanced
- PageMaker
- QuarkXPress
- Macintosh Systems Management
- Introduction to Computer Graphics
- PowerPoint
- FileMaker Pro
- Adobe Photoshop (1, 2, 3, and Image Correction)
- Excel
- ClarisWorks
- Microsoft Works for DOS, Mac, and Windows
- Introduction to Telecommunications (in person and online)
- Web Page Design
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Digital Archiving
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Dreamweaver
In my "spare" time, I have helped to set up the Sonoma Valley Computer Group and written books on computing with the Macintosh and with Windows 95. My husband and I have set up an "Intranet" between my PowerMac upstairs and his Pentium downstairs. Thanks to Eudora and vom.com, we send each other email with favorite web sites found while out surfing. Here are some of his finds from 1999. I just updated the links.
- Virtual Vacations Postcards
- The Motley Fools Investment
- WWW FAQ (amazing, this is the original link)
- Appetizers for dinner
In 2009, we have a wireless household network, and use both Mac and Windows operating systems on our Intel iMacs and laptops.
Life beyond SRJC
When I am not at the computer, you can typically find me in the garden. With the help of our Scottish Terrier to hunt gophers and dig up seedlings, we try to grow organic fruits, vegetables, and perennial herbs and flowers. We have 98 merlot vines whose fruits we ferment at the little known Paradox Winery (Web site still under construction).We have two children, and as they each left for college, they replaced themselves with the Scotties.
In 2009 we have only ghost dogs, which is quite sad, but we do have 4 grandchildren, which is most exciting, and keeps us way too busy to socialize a new dog right now. To the left is the oldest, Taliah, taken a couple of years ago.
Taliah has an extremely rare chromosomal disorder known as Charge Syndrome. She is doing very, very well, considering.
Here are Taliah's identical twin brothers, Max and Zack, and the three of them together, fondly known as the "triplets."
And finally, Taliah, Max, and Zack's new first cousin, Raoul, born May 13, 2009.
