Name/Title
SF Towers - Eunice Childs - Bunnies - 2019Description
Eunice Childs
“Bunnies”
SF Towers
Eunice was born in 1929, one week after the stock market crashed, in Syracuse, New York. “It affected our family,” she recalls. “We were poor and anxious.” She and her younger sister Lois both studied art at Washington University in St. Louis. “Our parents encouraged art, and we were lucky that art was part of the school curriculum when we were growing up.”
After a short stint working in St. Louis, Eunice moved to New York, where she enjoyed working in the Little Golden Books division of Simon & Schuster, doing layout for children’s books and nature guides. She fell in love with San Francisco while visiting a college friend and moved here in 1959. She met her husband Alfred on a Sierra Club hiking trip.
She hated her job in a big corporation in SF and moved to Berkeley on a friend’s suggestion. Berkeley’s diversity suited her, compared to conservative St. Louis with its segregated housing. “I have a live-and-let-live attitude,” she states. She became an Administrative Analyst in records management in the Office of the President of the UC system for 27 years, retiring in 1987.
Now 90, Eunice describes her younger self as shy, up into her 30s. “That’s the blessing of getting older…I’m not self-conscious anymore.” She doesn’t mind being alone, likes the other students in art class, and has served on the Resident Council. She enjoys making necklaces in beading class, and reading books on American history.
ART WITH ELDERS
2019 27th Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
