Pamela Wojnar

Profile Updated: August 6, 2016
Residing In: North Attleboo, MA USA
Spouse/Partner: A fortune teller told me I've met him, but unfortunately she didn't have his number!
Occupation: College professor in sports coaching/sports mgnmt
Did you have any nicknames in school?

Woj

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Moved to California during the summer of 1978, graduated from Huntington Beach HS (definitely no Fort Hunt!). On to Orange Coast College to play basketball and go to class enough to stay eligible (yeah I was one of those students). Parents moved to Va Bch after my freshman year, but I stayed out west; after one year felt 3000 miles was too far away and transferred to UCONN.

Left UCONN after a year and a half, but without a year and a half of credits; moved home and started working at Bank of America thanks to the help of Pat (Takane) Brown who was also working there. Then worked for the State Department in foreign service retirement department. After almost two years I decided it was time to finish my degree so started part-time at George Mason and got a cooperative education job at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Public Relations. Finished up my college buffet of a degree at Mason in 1987 and stayed at NAVFAC in PR. Got a part-time gig coaching basketball at Marymount University in Arlington.

Decided to switch careers and two years later became the first full-time head women's basketball coach/sports information director at St. Mary's College of MD. After four years moved on to Rosemont College (PA) as the athletic director/head women's basketball coach. From there moved to Wheaton College (MA) as the assistant athletic director and most recently I was the athletic director at College of Notre Dame of MD. During this time I also got my masters and recently earned my doctorate and am now back in MA looking for my next gig . . .any ideas? offers? :-) Never mind . . . found it, my goal was to switch from college coaching to teaching and that's what I'm doing. After the reunion it is back to MA to pack and then it is off to Alabama! I'll be living in Spanish Fort and working in Daphne, across the bay from Mobile! :-D

Obviously still been doing that moving around thing that I got used to growing up with a dad in the US Coast Guard.

2016 Update: Moved back to MA in 2012, and am now teaching full-time at Northeastern University in their sports leadership graduate program.

School Story:

Toilet papering lockers, houses and cars; you could call it a pastime of mine! :-)

Mrs. Henderson walking into first period Chemistry every morning and going over to the back door for the chemicals and realizing she left her keys on the desk and saying "Oh Poppycock!"

Monsieur Craig saying "keep your eyes on your own paper" (in French) and looking up to see him staring right at me! I wasn't looking at anyone's paper, I was staring into space wishing an answer would pop in my head! Shockingly enough I had to take French again in college . . .go figure! Don't know what it was, but I just struggled with French!

How often do you get back to Alexandria?

Not that often, but a little more than in the past now that my older brother lives in Old Town.

Do you still see/talk to/hang out with any classmates? Who?

Still in touch with Carole (Suggs) Ingell and Pat (Takane) Brown, and thanks to the reunion getting back in touch with more and more folks! :-D

What would we be surprised to know about you?

Hmmm now if I told you it wouldn't be a surprise . .. just another way of saying I dunno, I'm pretty much an open book!

What are your memories of high school (i.e. secret crush, embarrassing moment, funniest thing you did in high school, favorite high school hang out, favorite teachers)?

So many of all of the above; really enjoyed my days at Fort Hunt, was very bummed about moving my senior year and did not have a good one in sunny Southern California unfortunately.

Coach Grow using broken matchsticks to diagram plays during timeouts!

Coach Tisinger saying "if you can smile you can still run" on training runs.

Biggest thing you would do differently if you went back to your time at high school?

For sure would have listened to Tisinger and stuck with track freshman and sophomore years instead of just junior year!

Any words of wisdom?

Don't take life too seriously. :-D

Do you give your permission to the Reunion Committee to download photos from your profile for use in reunion slideshows and/or photo collages?

Yes

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