Timeline

1929	Morro Bay - Harleigh is born – January 21st
1931	Morro Bay - Sister Nona is born – November 27th
1942	Morro Bay - Knott family moves out of their house and into a neighbor’s house to make room for officers training in Morro Bay during WWII.
1945	Morro Bay – Chair of Girls League at San Luis Obispo High School
1946	Morro Bay – Receives full scholarship to University of California but decides to go to Stanford, where her mom Rachel went.
1947	Stanford – Member of International Survey Committee and Council for UNESCO at Stanford. Worked the summer at Circle Bar-B Ranch in Goleta.
1948	Stanford – Worked at the Stanford Business Library for two years while a student.
1950	Stanford and Washington DC - Graduates from Stanford with a BA in History. Visited Great Britain (68 days) and France (8 days) and took a summer Economics course at Oxford University in England. Starts work at the US Air Force in Washington DC.
1951	Washington DC – Visits Canada for two weeks.
1955	London – Transfers to Office of the Air Attaché at the US Embassy in London. Visits Ireland for two weeks.
1956	London – Visits Ireland (two weeks) and Holland(1 week).
1957	London – Mother, Rachel Thayer Knott, dies onJanuary 18th at age 64.
1958	London – Three week cruise to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Two week “convalescent stay” in Mallorca, Spain. Completes two tours of duty with the US Air Force then resigns.
1959	London and Palo Alto – Three week cruise to Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Two weeks in Austria. Moves back to Palo Alto to be a Women’s Residence Hall director at Stanford.
1960	Palo Alto and Australia. Sails from San Francisco to New Zealand stopping in Canada, Hawaii, and Fiji.
1961	Australia and England – Secretarial jobs in Sydney, Australia. Then sails from Australia to England stopping in Sri Lanka, Yemen, Egypt, Italy, Spain, and Gibraltar. Later visits Italy (three weeks) and Scotland (two weeks).
1962	New York – Secretary at Hazeltine Corporation. Sister, Nona Reynolds Knott, dies on April 16th at age 30.
1963	New York – Three months visiting Belgium, Spain, England, and Denmark.
1964	New York – Three week British-led tour of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
1965	New York and Palo Alto – Attends New York School of Interior Design, earning a Certificate of Interior Design. Moves back to Palo Alto and begins working at the Stanford University Department of History.
1968	Palo Alto – Seriously injured in a car accident in her Volkswagen beetle while driving from Palo Alto to Morro Bay. Recovers over several months in Morro Bay.
1969	Palo Alto – Visits Barbados in November
1971	Palo Alto – Begins working at the Stanford University Department of Cardiology, where they were preparing to do the first human heart transplant. Ends up not being the first. Visits England for two months, then a cruise to Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Sicily, and Spain.
1973	Palo Alto – Visits England, Tunisia, and Algeria for two months during the summer.
1975	Palo Alto – Visits England, Portugal, and East Germany for two months during the summer.
1976	Palo Alto – Visits England and Egypt for two months during the spring.
1977	Palo Alto – Father, Arthur Harold Knott, dies on April 16th (same day as her sister) at age 93.
1979	Palo Alto – Visits England, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey for two months during the summer.
1982	Palo Alto – Visits the USSR (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia), West Germany, and England.
1985	Morro Bay – Begins work at the Morro Bay High School as a librarian while living in her childhood home. Takes distance learning French and German classes at Foothill College, and a travel writing class at San Francisco State University.
1988	Morro Bay – Visits England in July.
1996	Morro Bay – Visits France in November after retiring from Morro Bay High School.
2009	Morro Bay - Decides to switch from a PC to a Mac and takes the bus to the Apple Store in San Luis Obispo every week for two months for classes.
2019	Morro Bay – Harleigh Thayer Knott dies on March 2nd at age 90.