Born and raised in the Chicago area, Ruth Hoffman graduated from University of Chicago with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. In this interview, she discusses traveling to Iowa via bicycle before moving to Richmond, California to work in the Kaiser Shipyards, where she starts off as a welder only to become a teacher and eventually director of the Maritime Childcare center. She also discusses the work-environment of the shipyard, her experiences in the childcare center, the innovation of the shipyard health plan, and her life after WWII. O’Neil S. Dillon was born July 12, 1940 in Los Angeles. While his parents worked at the Kaiser Shipyards, he would stay at the childcare center under the care of Hoffman. Dillon also discusses his mother’s involvement with the Women’s Garment Movement, his father’s UC education, and his own pursuit of a career in Medicine.