Merla Zellerbach Zellerbach Day. Cosmopolitan, Travel & Leisure, Reader's Digest, Prevention, Women's World, This Week, Saturday Evening Post, and others; 1989-99; Cover stories: SF Focus, Gentry, Nob Hill Gazette, Where Magazine; 1985-91; Featured articles (8) in Town & Country. Published Interviews included: Shirley Temple Black, Yves St. Laurent, Andy Warhol, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Bob Hope, Hugh Hefner, Bennett Cerf, Joe Montana and Helen Gurley Brown. 9, 10 2007 – 2014; Editor Emerita and staff writer for Nob Hill Gazette 1995 - 2007; Editor, Nob Hill Gazette 1975-93; Enrichment Lecturer and writing instructor on cruise ships 1965-70; Panelist on ABC-TV's OH MY WORD,
William Gurley William Gurley William Gurley (March 16, 1821 – January 11, 1887) co-founded what is now known as Gurley Precision Instruments with his brother, and served as vice president and, from 1886 to 1887, acting president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gurley was born in Troy, New York, March 16, 1821, the son of Ephraim and Clarissa (Sharp) Gurley. He received the best education afforded by the schools in this vicinity, and choosing the profession of a civil engineer, attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1839. He worked as a surveyor for a few years and then joined