I checked just on general interest Ancestry's new offering of California marriage and divorce records. There were 1,792 California marriages with a Whitney in the years from 1960 to 1985. There were 876 California divorces with a Whitney participant in the years 1966-1984. Seems as if the failure rate in divorce of one in two marriages is going strong in California! I can look for specifics if anyone is interested, although this is a bit too recent for such documentation to be unknown among the family. Marion Whitney Martin