{"id":109,"date":"2015-10-16T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/Goucher\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:52:31","slug":"jacquelyn-toton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/magazine\/jacquelyn-toton\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacquelyn Leary Toton \u201963"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people count sheep when they\u2019re trying to fall asleep; <strong>Jacquelyn Leary Toton \u201963<\/strong> counts the babies\u2014more than 4,000 of them\u2014she delivered over her long career as an OB-GYN. She says the thrill of bringing a new life into the world doesn\u2019t wear off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt never gets old,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are some theories about how the hormone oxytocin bathes everybody in that warm, wonderful feeling. Maybe that\u2019s why I kept doing it,\u201d she laughs, \u201ceven after common sense told me to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She still remembers the first baby she delivered, as a medical student at Temple University. Her class was just 5 percent women\u2014\u201cOne forgets,\u201d she says, \u201cthat one is part of history.\u201d That was before she married a fellow student three days before graduation, before they drove across the country to start their residencies at the county hospital in Oakland, California, and before she had five children and eight grandchildren of her own.<\/p>\n<p>After a stint in Okinawa (where\u00a0her husband was stationed during the\u00a0Vietnam War), she returned to California, this time to San Francisco to finish her residency before opening a practice in Marin County, where she stayed for 30 years. Toton retired in 2010, but spent the last five years of her career traveling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked for various companies that would send me to places like Hawaii, where they had a need for an extra doctor,\u201d she says. \u201cI spent the last five years between working in Sacramento and doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the trips to Hawaii was nine months long and would have been longer, but she had to return to the mainland for a special delivery: One of her daughters was having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Toton hasn\u2019t slowed down much since retiring, taking up the things she didn\u2019t have time to do as a doctor and mother. She\u2019s been writing, painting, and playing golf\u2014a sport she took up in high school, playing for the boys\u2019 team. She was active at Goucher, too, serving as president of the athletic association and playing on the field hockey and lacrosse teams. Now, writing and art provide her with a creative outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find that writing, drawing and watercolors, and golf provide me with a meditative state, which allows my inner thought and feelings to express themselves,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Toton\u2019s been doing a bit of globe-trotting, as well. \u201cCompared to Goucher people I haven\u2019t been doing much traveling,\u201d she jokes. \u201cCompared to most people I\u2019m on the road all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through a friend of a friend, she attended a 2014 conference of Eastern and Western medicine in Dharamshala, India, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile. As part of the small conference, she was among the attendees who got to see a speech by the Dalai Lama, followed by a question-and-answer session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s so intelligent, so well-read, so up-to-date,\u201d she says. In answer to one question, she recalls, the Dalai Lama spoke about the importance of women\u2019s education. \u201cI was really so impressed with his humbleness and the breadth of his knowledge,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toton laughs again, \u201cThen we all crowded around and got our pictures taken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting newborns with retired OB\/GYN Jacqueline Leary 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