Married

I aimed to become a veterinarian. After a year of pre-vet at Michigan State, however, I found the program too restrictive. I wanted to study languages, philosophy, and writing. The professional school wasn't flexible enough to let me do that, so I switched to liberal arts. Got my B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa in 1971, and within a year was working at the university library as a technical assistant.

I also wanted to live in a rural area and own horses of my own. My partner and I now have a small 5 acre farm in Illinois, with three horses (as well as various dogs, cats, and wandering poultry.) It took a good many years to get here, though.

No

None for many years now.

None I choose to recall.

The Band was my favorite curriculum item and activity. Many teachers feature fondly in my memories as well.

Joseph Remington, Band Director; Richard Ensign, Physics; John Claeys, English; Jack Clark, English; Marina Vossos; Journalism; Sue Roman, Civics; Dave McNeil, biology.

Best not mentioned.

Shadowlawn

Loren Phillips (Lowrey High School,) 1961
Larry Phillips, 1969
Gayleen Phillips, 1975

Berwyn
Haston

I regret nothing.

Being bullied a lot.

Simon & Garfunkel; Peter, Paul & Mary; The Beatles; The Cleveland Symphony.

Oh gosh, probably a high school band concert in Melvindale when we lived there and my older brother was in the band at Melvindale High School. Loren played oboe and clarinet. He graduated from Lowrey High School in Dearborn, 1961, because at that time we had no high schools in Dearborn Heights (then called Dearborn Township.)

I have held a number of jobs in libraries, and in 1990-91 I went back to graduate school at Rosary College (now Dominican University, River Forest, IL) to get my master's degree in library science. After that I held professional positions at Columbia College Chicago, C. Berger Library Services, and Harvard-Diggins Public Library (Harvard, IL.) I also worked as a documentation writer and software engineer at NOTIS Systems (library software) and much earlier at Time-Life in Chicago and at Federal Reserve Bank as a computer systems programmer.

I am also a published author, with technical materials under my own name and fiction and poetry under the pseudonym "Altivo Overo."