Bo Derek she makes occasional film, television, and documentary appearances. Derek was born Mary Cathleen Collins in Long Beach, California. Her father, Paul Collins, was a Hobie Cat executive, and her mother, Norma (née White), was a make-up artist and hairdresser to Ann-Margret. Collins' parents divorced, and her mother married American stunt performer Bobby Bass. Collins attended Narbonne High School and George S. Patton Continuation School, both in Harbor City, California. She remarked in a 1985 interview on "Late Night with David Letterman": While attending Narbonne High School in Los Angeles at age 16 in 1973, Collins became romantically involved with John
Margaret S. Collins ecology, taxonomy, and entomology. Although she had health problems during the 1980s and the 1990s, Collin’s increased her work in the field, taking various expeditions to the Caribbean. On April 27, 1996 Dr. Margaret James Strickland Collins died at the age of 73. Dr. Collins died at Southern Cross Club in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands on an expedition due to congestive heart failure. Margaret S. Collins Margaret James Strickland Collins (September 4, 1922 – April 27, 1996) was an African-American child prodigy, entomologist (zoologist) specializing in the study of termites, and a civil rights advocate. Collins was nicknamed the “Termite