She left us in a dramatic way in a shoot out with the police with the SLA...she was Nancy Ling Perry then...she was in PE with me and signed my yearbook...I felt sad that a classmate went so wrong...she was always nice to me which really meant a lot ...despite her troubles she reached out...so I will fondly remember her.....RIP Nancy....
I didn't know Nancy well- what I remember about her is that she was a leader---always involved and sought to make a difference. If I recall correctly, she was a "young Republican for Goldwater". Even at MH she was on the governing board.The activist and the idealist was strong in her.
A wise teacher once said to me.."idealism is deadly", in the sense that the cause often takes precident over all; agree or not, certainly it can be true, and for Nancy it certainly turned out that way. Sadly..
Nancy Ling? The amazing thing is that Nancy was a total Conservative extremist in High School! And totally smart and articulate too. In the 1964 Presidential campaign she was a Goldwater supporter! She was anti-Keynesian, anti-welfare, anti-New Deal, etc., etc.! We used to fight like cats over our respective politics, as I was (and remain) an inveterate Liberal. But when she went to Berkeley, something must have snapped, who knows exactly what. But she clearly did one of those "extremist flops" where a reversal of polarity occurs. Boom. What a tradgedy. I recall listening to th play-by-play of the SLA drama in LA and hearing her name and thinking, "say what?" Not Nancy Ling! And wondered about how such a transformation might occur. So long ago.
Lynda McDowell (Labine)
She left us in a dramatic way in a shoot out with the police with the SLA...she was Nancy Ling Perry then...she was in PE with me and signed my yearbook...I felt sad that a classmate went so wrong...she was always nice to me which really meant a lot ...despite her troubles she reached out...so I will fondly remember her.....RIP Nancy....
Lynda McDowell Labine
Cathy Panas (Hunter)
I didn't know Nancy well- what I remember about her is that she was a leader---always involved and sought to make a difference. If I recall correctly, she was a "young Republican for Goldwater". Even at MH she was on the governing board.The activist and the idealist was strong in her.
A wise teacher once said to me.."idealism is deadly", in the sense that the cause often takes precident over all; agree or not, certainly it can be true, and for Nancy it certainly turned out that way. Sadly..
Walter Kieser
Nancy Ling? The amazing thing is that Nancy was a total Conservative extremist in High School! And totally smart and articulate too. In the 1964 Presidential campaign she was a Goldwater supporter! She was anti-Keynesian, anti-welfare, anti-New Deal, etc., etc.! We used to fight like cats over our respective politics, as I was (and remain) an inveterate Liberal. But when she went to Berkeley, something must have snapped, who knows exactly what. But she clearly did one of those "extremist flops" where a reversal of polarity occurs. Boom. What a tradgedy. I recall listening to th play-by-play of the SLA drama in LA and hearing her name and thinking, "say what?" Not Nancy Ling! And wondered about how such a transformation might occur. So long ago.