’54 One year at Arlington State College. ‘55 Marriage. ‘56 One year at Baylor School of Dental Hygiene. ‘57 Three years in Austin while spouse was finishing at UT. ‘58 Two years in Dallas working as secretary to Chief geologist in oil and gas dept. at Southern Union Gas. ‘60 Spouse transferred by his company to Orange, TX. ‘61 Oldest son is born Jan 2. Move to AR. ‘62 Move to Rockford, IL. Daughter is born Aug. 23. ‘65 Job change to Pfizer, Inc.. Move back to Houston, TX. ‘67 3rd child, a boy, born July 29. ‘69 4th child, a boy, born Aug. 13. ‘70 Move to Spring/The Woodlands, TX ‘75 Matriculate at SHSU and graduate w/BFA in Theater Magna Cum Laude in ‘78. Graduate School at U of Houston. Earn MFA in Theater in 81. Start teaching at McCullough High School in The Woodlands. Divorced in ’91. Taught also at Klein Oak (notable student of mine, Jim Parsons) and Klein High Schools before retiring in 1994. Jim and I married in 1995, and moved to Colorado. He was retired. I retired. We traveled all over the country…west to east and back again. …north to south and back again. Took grandchildren (nine count at this time) with us in our motor home. My favorite trip was a summer spent in Canada on Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Toured the whole of Canada twice. Family is scattered from coast to coast, and we enjoy visiting them when we travel. Spent last July 4 in upstate New York with Jim’s family at the family retreat, which is three homes on about ten acres in West Eaton 30 miles south of Syracuse and about five miles west of Hamilton. We love to camp and sail. I love doing genealogical research and have had my DNA done, which has disclosed numerous "new" cousins across the country and the world. That’s been fun, and learning the history behind it all has been delightful. We both do volunteer work with the Senior Center and Friends of the Library.
We live on what used to be Lake Conroe (before the drought :-) in Walden in Montgomery, TX. Have been here 9 years in March. My daughter lives twenty mins. away. Two sons are in the Austin area, and one is in Laredo. Jim’s son lives with his family in Columbia, MD. His daughter is with the Parks dept at Crater Lake in OR. We have our sixth family member going to SHSU…our oldest granddaughter. We have four granddaughters and five grandsons.
I've stayed in close touch with Mary Whitten Gibbons, Elaine Russell Olson, and Leonite Selzer Moore (until her untimely death). Before my mother's death, I took her around Sherman and we filmed all the houses we'd lived in. I love to get out the CD and watch it. Sherman hasn't changed all that much really...not to me at least. Two of the houses we filmed are now gone, however.
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