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Interview of Avis Gibson Doctor by Meda Okelo. Topics include: migration to EPA in 1965 when she was 8 years old; attending Kavanaugh School and Green Oaks; experience as freshman at Ravenswood High School; experience as sophomore at Carlmont High; local businesses; youth life in the 1970s; transferring to Sequoia High School and its Pac Bell-sponsored school program; job as telephone operator after graduation; getting married to Frank Doctor; memories of the Incorporation period; Gertrude Wilks; changing community demographics; how she would have liked EPA to grow; why she converted from Baptist to 7th Day Adventist; why son attended Creative Montessori and other private schools; working at Ravenswood City School District; and her vision for EPA.