It was October 20, 1964. The song “Baby Love” by the Supremes was climbing the top 100 charts. America and the world were still struggling to come to grips with the brutal assignation of John F. Kennedy. The age of Camelot had gone and with the new day the unspoken questions loomed about America’s future. Nikita Khrushchev, banging his shoe on the podium at the U.N., promised to bury us, we had just adverted what we thought was doomsday with the Cuban Missile Crises, and people were just starting to talk about some kind of British Invasion. College campuses were abuzz with Civil Rights activism and protests. This day, two immigrant doctoral students, who had met previously while attending one of those protests, gave birth to their first-born baby girl. They named her Kamala.