By Erin Hallissy

REVOLUTIONARY

The 1960s and '70s brought many changes to America – the civil rights era, the women's liberation movement, the hippie era. Saint Mary's yearbook from 1970-71 noted a revolution was going on that "will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final actual act. … This is the revolution of the new generation."

By Mike McAlpin

Photo by Kat Wade

Nance Tovar, who graduated in 1976, was among four women who founded a private school in Oakland in 1989 for children from all socioeconomic and academic levels who would not otherwise be able to get an excellent education.