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Janet Chu talks about her career as an award-winning biology teacher and naturalist in Boulder and Boulder County for more than fifty years. She has been passionate about developing curricula for, and exposing children to, outdoor education, particularly through Fairview High School programs and the Cal-Wood Education Center. She also has contributed to butterfly counts for decades and published the popular guide, "Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range". In this wide-ranging interview, she talks about her college days, when it was uncommon and challenging to be a woman studying science; her work in biological curricula development; the International Baccalaureate Program at Fairview High School; recent effects of climate change on plants and butterflies; changes in science education and student attitudes and experiences over the years; and her travel to China. The interview concludes with her description of the ways in which her children and grandchildren are carrying on her biological interest and involvements.

Jeanne Nauenberg, who has lived in Boulder since 1969, grew up in New York City, the child of Jewish immigrant parents. She describes her parents’ former lives in Eastern Europe, their immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, and her childhood in New York City. She discusses her long career in education, first as an elementary teacher in New York, then working at a junior high in Jefferson County, and finally as a guidance counselor for many years at Fairview High School in Boulder. She talks about students during the hippie era, changes in parenting style over the years, the Teen Parenting Program, an internship career education program she spearheaded, instituting a middle school to high school transition program, and the architecture of Fairview High School.

An incomplete collection of The Royal Banner newspaper published by Fairview High School.