Born Lois Settler in Baltimore, MD. in 1940, she graduated from Goucher College in 1960 and completed MAT at The Johns Hopkins University in 1961. Lois married Jonas Spatz, 1962, MA, PhD in Classics from Indiana University Bloomington 1968. She taught classics at Brooklyn College, Park College, University of Missouri-Kansas City (retired 1999), San Francisco State University, Fromm Institute for Life Long Learning, and is now a volunteer at ‘Lincoln Towers University’, which she started at her co-op complex of 9 apartment buildings. Lois has two sons and two grandchildren.