Lynne Schafer Gross was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937 and grew up there in a middle class community. She attended Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh and then she and her husband, Paul, moved to Los Angeles where they raised three sons. Lynne’s career centered on media—television in particular. She was a professor at several universities, where she taught such courses as Television Production, Scriptwriting, Radio-TV Programming, and Global Media. During her 19 years at California State University, Fullerton, she served as Vice Chair of the Communications Department and was instrumental in setting up a Radio-Television-Film Department. She was a producer for several television series including a 45-program music history series for public television and an instructional series about craft and technical jobs in television. For a period of time she worked as a Director of Programming for a cable TV system. She started her career at a time when very few wom