Tell her you attended school with the aforementioned Bill Wolff, Robbie Krieger of the Doors, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, as well as a few other luminaries in those years: Matt Kelley and Tim Hovey.
Bob Weir came up through the lower school and was at Menlo up until his sophomore year when his parents had him transferred to a boarding school in Colorado.
When he joined the Dead, he took several Menlo classmates into the entourage: Tim Hovey, deceased (cf. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397024/bio), and Matt Kelley (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Kelly_%28musician%29).
Matt formed the band Kingfish and toured with Bob Weir.
When I was in the Air Force during the Viet Nam War, I was stationed in Omaha, Nebraska (SAC Headquarters) and dating a Kappa Alpha Theta from Nebraska University (Drop dead gorgeous but dumb as a bag of hammers.). Bob Weir and the Dead came to town and I was on the blower to score some freebie tickets (which Bob gladly offered). So I took her and she got a chance to go backstage where she could meet Bob, Jerry Garcia, TC, and Pig Pen. The guy she really thought was cool was Owsley Stanley (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley) who got rich synthesizing and selling LSD before it was illegal. He was doing the sound for the Dead and reveling in sound equipment that included a bank of Tektronic 465L scopes (going for about $3-5,000 each at the time). Needless to say, her mind was blown.So, you see, that had you not become an attorney nor I gone into the USAF, we might very well have become part of the "60s" that your daughter reads about....of course, "60s" has new (and far less exciting connotations) for us now. *sigh*
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