Berit Pavloff, 1990 Berit Naess was born in Norway in 1939. She emigrated to the United States in October 1951, aboard the Stavangerfjord, from Oslo, Norway to New York City, New York. She was aged 12 years and had traveled with 37-year-old Gudrun Naess, possibly her mother. They were bound for an address in Hazel Park, Michigan. Berit was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1957. In 1960, she was a student at the University of Michigan, where she was living in Hunt House, an all-women section of South Quad, one of the dormitories on campus. Berit was married to Louis Pavloff, a first-generation American born in Michigan to parents who were natives of Greece. They had at least one child, a daughter, Kia Pavloff. I first met Mrs. Pavloff in the winter of 1990, when I was a member of her creative writing class at Avondale High School. We wrote a lot of poetry, but I believe there were also assignments where we wrote short stories and probably other forms of writing. We wer...