Dorris West Goodrich, long-time Santa Barbara resident, passed away peacefully on October 22, 2021, at the age of 101. She was known for her creativity, kindness, enthusiasm, empathy, sense of humor, and inter-generational friendships…and for earning her PhD five years before her late husband of 67 years, UCSB China scholar and California native Chauncey S. Goodrich, Jr., even while rearing the first two of their four children.
Dorris was born on February 3, 1920, in Palouse, Washington, a farming town near the Idaho border, and at home (above a car-repair business) because the local hospital was full of influenza patients. She was not destined agricultural life, however, like her Uncle Clayton, nor did she follow her parents’ commercial pursuits — they ran the town’s West’s Grocery for many decades. After graduating from high school in 1937 she attended business school, as had her father, learning shorthand, accounting, and legal stenography. She used those skills to pay her way through Washington State University in Pullman (at 35 cents per hour for secretarial services). She majored in sociology, and graduated in 1942.
World War Two caused a shortage of college teachers, and for graduate school Dorris accepted the best offer — a half-time teaching position, at $600 per year, at the University of Minnesota. Her mentor there was editor of the American Sociological Review, and she became his assistant. She also ushered for the Minneapolis Symphony, where she once chatted...
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