Barbara Waers Bilyeu

I went to college in Kansas City, Missouri and married in 1967 to a retired Naval Officer and we moved to New York for 5 years. We moved back here and began our family. I went to work in social services when the girls went to school ....... and was very lucky to have many interesting opportunities in that capacity. I worked with the University of Washington in their Education Department for 5 years, with the Department of Justice when the Americans with Disabilities Act was implemented - traveling to all of the western states and territories - teaching the finer points of the Act. And finally retired from Pierce County after 12 years working with families of 0-3 aged children. I loved every one of my jobs and retirement wasn't easy for the first year (and I worked until I was 70). But I have the hang of it now! I have been on the condo board since moving here - which, by the way, is a hard and pretty thankless job - if you are planning on trying it!

The thing that has shocked me more than anything else: I recognize more names on the passed away list than the student list!