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Joyce Rutherford was born in 1923 in Porterville, California to parents who emigrated from England. She grew up in Crockett, California during the Great Depression. Rutherford enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1941, majoring in architecture, and graduated in 1944. She worked at Alta Bates Hospital in 1942, and eventually began working in the engineering department at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond. After the war, she worked as an architect until her retirement at age seventy-nine. In this interview, Rutherford discusses growing up in Crockett, being part of the Episcopalian church as a child, attending UC Berkeley, the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, architecture in Berkeley, working in the shipyards as a student and a Rosie, Port Chicago, and life during and after the war.