Sylvia Harper grew up in Silver Terrace in San Francisco, and
went to Saint Mary's Cathedral High School, which was affiliated
with the Christian Brothers' Sacred Heart High School. For a
city girl, the remote campus in Moraga was enchanting.  "I loved
that it was far enough away from San Francisco so I could get
the experience of living away from home, but it was still
close," she says. "And it was so small then. It was a very
friendly time. Rheem had only one place to eat. People
hitchhiked all the time. The fear factor wasn't there."  Her
College years were filled with a busy social calendar and
challenging schoolwork. She played intramural football, was a
cheerleader, and both the Homecoming Queen and the "donut
queen," admired for the daintily decorated treats she made after
rising at 4 a.m. to work with the campus baker.  "In order to
embrace life, you have to do everything," she says. "No matter
where you go in life, you only go that way once, so go all the
way."  The turbulence of the 1970s, with the