Susan Shalit
11 a.m., December 3, 2023
Join Susan Shalit in Mountain View, where she will discuss and answer questions, OR join us on Zoom.
A journey from my experiences traveling to and from and living part-time in the Motherlode town of Jamestown, CA for the past 8 years. It is a very rich area of California in history, geography, geology, animal life, literature, music, art, and scenic value. If you grew up in California, most likely you know about the famous 49er Gold Rush. I will go into how to get there, places to stop, side trips, etc. I will touch on some of the many places, people, and items of interest that I have experienced so far. I am continually learning about this area so there is much more to explore only 2 ½ hours from the Bay Area.
About our speaker
Susan Shalit was born in Boston, MA, the youngest of four children. At 18 months her family relocated to the SF Bay Area where she went to school and then went on to the University of California at Berkeley to graduate with a degree in Economics. After graduation, she went to SF State for a teaching credential working with the disabled but decided to take a break and become a letter carrier for the USPS in Berkeley. At the same time, as a single person, she bought her first house in Oakland where she tore out walls, re-tiled floors, painted, and did some electrical and plumbing. Her father taught her a lot about house repair. Her mother taught her to cook without recipes. She does some gardening, indoors and outdoors. Realizing that she needed to go beyond the postal service and house rebuilding, she took a course in software programming and, for over 40 years, has worked as a computer programmer/software engineer/Sr. Business Analyst in the IT industry for major corporations. This brought her to live in Silicon Valley, continuing to buy and fix houses and own an independent coffee house in Gilroy. She has one son and three teenage grandchildren. In 2015, she bought a 2nd house in the Motherlode area of California where she visits every other week. She loves to explore new places and entertain.
Susan has been an HCSV member for over 30 years where she was a board member. For HCSV she evaluated and installed a membership management system that eliminated manual renewals, created an effective attendance monitoring system, designed and produced name badges for members, organized many events, hosted many potlucks, designed and created posters, flyers, and the HCSV trifold brochure. She was the primary administrator for many years of the database system and helped author the membership page of the HCSV webpage. In 2019, she received the HCSV Humanist of the Year award.
Most recently she co-hosted a very successful concert/educational event in the Motherlode area which involved extensive research in Native American culture, food, dance, and music. She designed and produced the graphical promotional materials and online references for the event. She also volunteers at a Los Gatos thrift store that donates to Pacific Clinics, a large family services, and foster care agency, Railtown Historical Park in Jamestown, the Tuolumne County History Research Center, and the Tuolumne County Center for the Arts.
See Susan’s slides here.
12/03/23 Susan Shalit from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
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