Pat followed Lon around the country as he did his military training. The war ended the day that he and his crewmates were to fly to the South Pacific for combat. He then applied and was admitted to medical school at UC San Francisco. Pat first did about a year at UC Berkeley, studying for an MA in Psychology, specializing in nursery school education, and then she worked for a few years for a woman pediatrician in San Francisco. Then, in 1949, (after several miscarriages), she delivered her first child, Sally. Around 1950 they moved to a housing project called Sunnydale, in the southern part of San Francisco, where they met several other medical school families who became longtime friends, including Bob and Joyce Cook and Lindy and Dave Dickey. Marge and her husband Jim Haycox, also a medical student, lived there as well (or near there). They would have parties in someone's apartment, and send one person every half-hour around to all the apartments to check on the kids. On one such occasion, someone found Marcia Cook, in her Nighty-night sleepers, waiting calmly on the stairs for the watcher to come and re-button the pj's. In 1951 Pat's second child, Nora, was born.