Well, I graduated from college after they threatened to
throw me out for having too many credits. I ended up
with two BS degrees from the U of Washington. I spent
a few months at Amazon.com playing at being a sysadmin
but it wasn't for me. From there I moved to the field
of genetics which worked much better, especially
because I became somewhat of an expert at tweaking all
the UNIX bioinformatics tools. About six years ago I
asked my stepfather to legally adopt me, which he did.
That's when my last name changed to Kurihara. A
little over two years ago I met a wonderful man, within
a few months we were sure about each other. We moved
in together, got engaged, and in July of last year we
were married. I didn't want to give up my dad's name so
I just took my husbands and added it on to the end.
Complex but I wanted to honor my father. In truth
though,I've never been happier.
Send a message to Bethany Richards (now Kurihara Olson) '90