 In "Still the Beaver" and "The New Leave It to Beaver", the Beaver is divorced from Kimberly (played by Joanna Gleason); the couple had two sons, Ward (named after his grandfather, he goes by the nickname Kip) and Oliver (whose nickname is Ollie).Kimberly and the Beaver had clashed over her dream of becoming a veterinarian, and that plus other problems had strained their marriage to its breaking point.Kimberly tells Beaver to take the boys because the only vet school she can go to is in Italy, although Beaver's sons have a stormy relationship because they resent having to move to Mayfield.