Robin Young Glover

After graduation I went to work at Chevy. I worked with Barb Meilonin and Donna Onan for a time, but then I was transferred to a different plant and lost track of them. I went all the way through grammar school and high school with Barb, but it wasn't until we worked together at Chevy that we became friendly. I was very happy about that. Donna was in my homeroom at Riverside and I was already friends with her. It was a terrible environment to work in, so it was nice to see a couple of familiar faces there.
I was kind of shy and awkward in high school, a bit of an outcast, but I was a classic late bloomer. Not a shy bone in my body now!
I worked at Chevy for twenty-eight and a half years before taking a disability retirement. I would've liked to have made the thirty years and retired with full honors, but it just wasn't worth it to keep going back and hurting myself.
I met and married my future ex-husband, David, in 1988. I already had one child at that point, my son, Joe, who was thirteen when I got married. Then I had three children in less than three years --- that damn biological clock ticking and I wanted that girl! Then, just when I thought I was done with potty training children, I took on another child, a one-year-old little girl whose mother had abandoned her. I raised Sadie until she was fourteen years old, then after thirteen years the family court system, in their infinite wisdom, sent her back to live with her mother. So now I'm down to three children still at home -- my two boys Zach and Josh are in college and my daughter Joy is a junior in high school. I love them dearly, but I look forward to the day when they're out and on their own and I can regain my freedom. My oldest son, Joe, who spent 10 years in the Navy, was married and divorced and has custody of my grandson, Malik.
I lived in Buffalo up until four years ago, then I moved down to the village of East Aurora, where I have finally found my real home. I just love it here. I love my home, my neighbors and the strong sense of community here. To quote a phrase from the movie Runaway Bride, Thank the good lord for making me smart enough to live in a small town!
I divorced my husband three years ago after 18 years of marriage. It was a good thing and although I can't say that I'm really happy, I can say I'm very content with my life the way it is now. At this point in my life I'm fine with going with the flow and whatever happens happens. I'm active in my church and have many good friends who have been there through good times and bad.

I was very shy and awkward when I was in high school. If you mentioned my name to most people they would probably say, "Robin WHO?!" or, "Oh, geeze, HER!" I did have some wonderful friends, though. I will never forget 6th period study hall with Carol Phillips, Kathy Parks and Peter Lauricella. As Peter wrote in my senior class yearbook, we were a family, and I still think of them often, although we all lost track of one another after graduation. Then there were all the sleepovers and pool parties at Kathy Davis' house. I sat in Kathy's back yard on graduation night with her, Laszlo Szlabonyi and Phil Conley drinking Maximus 7 beer (anyone else remember that stuff?). When Kathy's mother asked me how I felt, being a high school graduate, I gave her a one word answer --- insecure.
I wish I would have realized the significance of graduation at the time when it was happening, thought more about the people I was leaving behind and would most likely never see again. High school was a bittersweet time in my life, one I think about often, but would never want to go back to. That's why I've never gone to any of the reunions, but I think about my classmates often and wonder what they would think of me now.