Judith "Judy" Blackwood Holland

After high school, I was off to UNCG with Bernadette, Mayme Jo, Betty, Connie, Beth & Trish. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to how much trouble this group caused, but I did graduate with an associate degree in business.

I came home and worked for Duke Power Co, where I met Charles Holland (North Meck class of ’58). We were married and soon after off to NC State for him to finish with a degree in mechanical engineering. We returned to Charlotte for him to work at Celanese and started a family. His job led us to Lincolnton, NC, where we have been for the last 48 years. Our two girls graduated from NC State and married fellas from the area who are also Wolfpackers. Our oldest daughter recently went back to work at NC State…and loves every minute. She has an 19-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter. Our youngest daughter is the queen volunteer in Clayton, NC. She and husband Rudy have 20-year-old triplets: a boy and two girls. Charles retired from Pharr Yarns of McAdenville, NC, as senior vice president and president of the high performance products group. He retired 10 years ago and is the happiest retired person! I fell into a career as a real estate broker 34 years ago and became rather good at matching people and houses. I retired 4 yrs ago. It has been very rewarding to me, and I enjoyed meeting the new people who came to town. Charles and I have a motor home that our grandchildren nicknamed “The Chuckwagon .” We have traveled with family through the West for 21 days in 2007 and New England in 2008, as well as several other trips. I want to do more traveling before time slips up on us. I cannot wait to see everyone!
Charles is healthy but I have been diagnosed with leukemia. I take 5 days of chemo every 5th week and it is still working (2019)

I enjoyed very much basketball under Marion Bell and Helen Tallent and the gals who were on the team. Flora Mae Watson and her math...How scared I was when I could not work some of those problems....thank you Ed Chalmers, Ken Parks, Buddy Stratton. I was so blessed to be a part of some great gals lives at both school and church. My years at Harding were full of wonderful memories. Lately I have been thinking about classmates and how they are doing. Some I have not heard from and we cannot find. Maybe someday.