The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.
Her students included billionaire industrialist Gordon Getty, whom she accompanied at a private party in Sausalito, California in early 1976, prior to his unsuccessful professional debut.
After the sale, Collier became an artist and established a studio and gallery in Sausalito, CA making sculptural reliefs of water surfaces with properties analogous to the intentions of the Light and Space Movement.
In response, on 27 July the Maritime Commission decided that the new Marinship yard at Sausalito, California, created to produce Liberty ships, would construct T2-SE tankers instead, with an initial order of 22.