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...Graduated SHHS January, 1966, there was still midterm then...I believe '67 was the last grad class in HISD for midterm.....
...24th January, 1966, moved to DentonTX to attend TexasWomen'sUniversity, art/advertising/fashion design major & sociology/psychology, wrkd prttime in my dorm & art department offices as well as hanging travelling exhibits in the art dept. gallery...got around on my bike
...left TWU January, 1969, transferred to UT/Austin, left & moved back home to Houston before the semester was out
...March, 1969 found a garage apartment in the Heights, bought a red VW beetle (BigMove for a 60's Girl), started a job w/TheHoustonChronicle, sold, wrote, edited & tweaked a Sunday weekly Shopper'sColumn called TheTalk of the Town, found in the Women's SundaySection w/my byline & picture (I'm preserved ForeverOnMicrofilm in the newspaper @ the DwntwnLibrary~check me out)..attended U of H @ nite
...January, 1971 married JohnPierce (Reagan'67 TransferStudent) @ the lovely little GlassChapel on the UH campus...we met @ the old SearsOnNShepherd where we both worked parttime during college summers
...March, 1972 first son born
...1972 - Summer 1975 lived in LakeCharlesLA due to husband's oilfield job transfer...mommy jobs & wrkd prttime doing display advertising for the local electrical company & same + dressing mannequins for a local JCPenneys store
...Summer 1975 moved back to Houston because we found SouthLouisiana so disagreeable...definitely no place to raise children...or breathe(!)
...January 20, 1976 second son was born, 10 years to the day after graduating from SH
...1975 - 1982 Started several tabletop, homebased jobs while kids were very little, sewing, cake decorating, craftshow selling & creating school yearbooks/4 yrs, in exchange for paying tuition for kid's private school...
...1982 - 2004 worked for HallmarkCards, going in and out of grocery stores, servicing card departments...I was the CardLady
...1985 - 2009 started traveling domestic & international with husband's oilfield job which has carried me to quaint, lovely, picturepostcard faraway spots as Norway, TheNetherlands, Scotland, England, Wales, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany
...1996 With the help of '66BarbaraRichardson & '66JudyFowler, and notes from Many-ManyOthersBeforeMe, took on the Lark of PeopleFinding & Organizing Reunions for our ClassOf1966...of which I have ThoroughlyEnjoyed getting to ReKnow and ReAppreciate Each 1 of you!...almost 600 of us!
...January, 1966 - Today it's been an EclecticRide! Have learned so much about Myself & Life and am ThankfulToGod for each moment, day & year that passes...
...current passions are doll collecting, late 40s - late 50s vinyl & hard plastic fashiondolls, internet research & reading celebrity biographies, travelling domestic & international w/my husband's oilfield job, geneaology, sewing, quilting, beading, EstateSale collecting...for the last 30 years, thru my husband's job (he teaches international students) & vicariously by way of association I have played 'hostess' to practically every culture on the face of the earth as they come here to go to his 'schools'...I try to get to know the over-100 or so students he teaches each year....& hope to leave them with good memories of America for the 8 wks they are here...what a delite to get to know the world as I have.....
