Laurie Thompson Tomazich

Moved to Hilton Head Island in 2000 to help my parents out who retired here. (Mom died 3 months later). Taught technology at the christian school here for 8 years. Got laid off (!!) and then worked at a country club as the Director of Communications. (free golf!) Had to quit after 6 months to care for my dad. Both parents are now gone, kids are married and gone, have the empty nest right now, but also out of a job. Going to be a gramma soon. Grandma! Can't believe how fast the years have flown.

Went to Thiel College in Greenville, PA and met my hubby. Studied Art Education. When it was time that the kids were ready to go to school, I was ready to once again teach, but since we're so old, we didn't have computer training and all my interviewers said that to teach art, I needed computer graphics. So I went to a business school for that, and I did so well, they wanted me to stay and teach there at the college. I never did get to teach art! Now that we moved here to SC, I got another job teaching computer. I think I'm ready to try my hand at what I went to school for, but do I still know how after a gazillion years?

OH! favorite school story: geesh, Marcia, Sissy, Becky and me teasing the home ec teacher...what WAS her name? also, cutting classes and driving around North Park especially senior year. WIll I get in trouble now? Cutting history class with Barb Thompson and walking off campus. I sound like I was bad! But really, I was a nice girl. Things are just so different now. It was innocent then. Being in the colorguard at football games was pretty neat, too.