Rosemary. I thought that she was older than 72. Saw her in l966 that would have made her 26. Looked older. Was thinking her father was Mexican/Indian. Quite a well know scientist.
Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941, in Staten Island, New York.
mother. Joan Bridge Baez
Joan Bridge was born April 11, 1913, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an Episcopal minister. The family moved to Canada when she was a child, and continued moving throughout the United States. Joan met Albert Baez at a dance at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Their first daughter, Pauline, was born in New Jersey, their second, Joan, on Staten Island in New York City, and their third, Mimi, in Palo Alto, California. When their daughter Joan became famous, Mrs. Baez referred to herself as Big Joan to avoid confusion. Big Joan, however, managed to make the news in her own right: in 1967 she was arrested for attempting to block entrance to the Oakland Army Induction Center in an effort to protest the draft and the Vietnam War. Big Joan and Albert separated in 1977, and in the 1980s Big Joan began writing a series of short books about her varied experiences, including her humanitarian efforts and anti-war activism. Her books are:
One Bowl of Porridge: Memoirs of Somalia.
lbert Vinicio Baez
Albert Baez was born in Puebla, Mexico, November 15, 1912. His father had left the Catholic faith to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when Albert was two. Albert grew up in Brooklyn and considered becoming a minister as well before he turned to mathematics and physics. He met Joan Bridge while he was still in high school. After they were married Albert and Joan moved to California, where he studied for a master's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in physics. As the cold war arose in the 1950s, Albert saw many of his colleagues pursue lucrative careers in the arms race. He finally decided to devote his career to education rather than destruction, and worked with Unesco. His work took him around the world, and he lived in Baghdad, Paris, and Africa. He also served as president of Vivamos Mejor, an organization dedicated to improving quality of life in Mexico through education and community development. He endowed an award, The Hispanic Engineer Albert Baez Award, which is given for Outstanding Technical Contribution to Humanity. He died on March 20, 2007, at the age of 94.