EmmaLu Pinkham

(portions from www.eeri.org interview with Clarkson W. Pinkham which was published in 2006)

"...During the fall semester of 1941, prior to getting my orders to report to the Navy, I met my future wife, EmmaLu Hull. We had met initially at a dancing school in Los Angeles in 1935. (Neither of us actually remember meeting.) She had just started studying music at U.C. Berkeley after two years at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, a suburb of Los Angeles. As I was no longer studying since being called to active duty by the Navy on Treasure Island, I had ample time to interrupt her studies. We were married in Berkeley on May 8, 1942. EmmaLu's parents were Bert Hull and Wilma (Bill) Reed. He was a claims manager for the Los Angeles office of an insurance firm. EmmaLu died in 2003.

World War II effectively put our family life on hold, as I was gone most of the time in the Pacific theaters of war. We did finally develop a family, all of whom went to U.C. Berkeley.

Nancy Pinkham was born in 1947. She has been an elementary school teacher in Arcadia. She married John Ballance, an electrical power engineer iwth Edison International. They had two children, Dennis Ballance and Stephanie Baltz.

Timothy Hull Pinkham was born in 1949. He was a defense analyst for the federal government in Washington D.C. He married Marian Chung, a doctor of internal medicine. They had two children, Rebecca and Daniel. Timothy died in 2005.

Anthony Hull Pinkham was born in 1955. He is a technical writer of computer programming in Mountain View."