{"id":88,"date":"2010-09-15T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:42:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:42:17","slug":"on-the-job-the-prom-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"On the Job: The Prom Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/images\/seconddraft\/murphyjean.jpg\" height=\"588\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"400\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old joke: <strong>How do you live to be 100? <\/strong>Make it to 99 and then be very, very careful.<\/p>\n<p>Being, as my wife says, a cornball at heart, I told that joke, which I heard many times from my father, to Jean Murphy when I met her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theredwoods.org\/\">the Redwoods <\/a>retirement community in Mill Valley, where I was photographing her for a feature for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinmagazine.com\/Marin-Magazine\/August-2010\/2010-Editors-039-Choice\/\">Marin Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jean, 99, smiled mildly at my attempt at witticism, a\u00a0 smile she had no doubt  developed during her many years of teaching and had reserved for those\u00a0<strong>  student she considered beyond salvation<\/strong>. Reaching 100 is no joke for Jean, and she is hardly sitting around waiting for her odometer to hit three digits, which it will do on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>In the hour we spent together in her crowded, but comfortable first-floor studio, Jean told me of outings to S.F. Symphony or Berkeley Rep or a community drumming session or protesting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvseniorsforpeace.org\/\">The Mill Valley Seniors for Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A busy lady, Jean was also <strong>this year\u2019s prom queen at The Redwoods<\/strong>, an honor awarded to the oldest attendee at the event. Here&#8217;s hoping Jean wears the crown again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old joke: How do you live to be 100? Make it to 99 and then be very, very careful. 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