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Beverly Curdy BROWN

What I Have Been Up To For 40 Years in 3 Pages or Less--Whewwwwww

I went to a year of college at Montana State University, majoring in art and minor in music. I married in 1970 and moved to Hollywood. My husband and I ran his family moving and storage business which we then bought in 1972. We have 2 children--Jake Kleimer and Shawn Marie Kleimer. I worked in the business and also went to the Art College of Design.
When my children started school I became a part time employ of Los Angeles United School District.

I went to Los Angeles City College where I earned my Water safety Instructor Certification and where I then worked with the handicap; teaching swimming and sailing to them.



Well here goes the last 10 years. I had a great job working as a Early Childhood Office Manager. I had 175, 2 to 4 year Olds every day and loved it, 12 of those were Special Needs Children and put you on top of your game. I retired from Los
Angeles Unified School Dist. after 40 years, in 2016/17.
SURVIVED covid, in hospitals with no beds and people in Ambulances until someone died and made a bed available or were lucky enough to go home to make a bed available. I didn't have Covid but I had kidney stones and a temperature of 106� and got put in a room covid patient so had to go back to hospital and be re checked....not a good time for mess ups,

I did have surgery and went home with no more covid scares.

We then decided to move to AZ. And have a beautiful new home 1on one Acre of land.
Charles is still working and I'm retired. We are loving an Irish Setter who is the #1 Bitch in the USA and 2nd in the Irish Setter standing-----there is only 1 male ahead of her BUT----

We are still learning new things about Arizona and having fun not having to get up at 5:30 and hit traffic (4 freeways
everyday) to work. I'm on my time now. Hope to see you all at the reunion and catch up some more.


I also taught swimming for 10 years at the Boys Club of Hollywood and ran their swim team. I eventually worked with the Assistance League teaching their girls to swim and I also worked with their swim team.

I switched majors to Kinesiology and Interior Design when I was at LACC. I have 2 AA degrees in both, which I received from Citrus College in 1996.

In 1985-86, I went through a divorce and began working full time for LAUSD. I am still in the Early Childhood Education now for 23 of my 33 years with the District. We enroll; bank; budget; look at the
eligibility of the families; train the
teachers on paper work and on the EESIS system. We are the help desk for the office managers/principals in our Centers and sites and we are required to do site visits also. Every day is a new adventure. We service almost 40,000 preschoolers and I really like what I do. These children/families really need our help so parents can work to build a better future for their family.

I have been the President of Calif. School Employee Association -CSEA- the Union has 7,000 members. They are the classified office support for the school sites and the Administration Offices. There are 151 job titles in the Unit, so we cover a lot of territory. It was a tough job as I had to work my own job also. I had many long days and no weekend as I was always in meetings, job stewarding and negotiations.

I remarried in 1990, to Charles Brown and we moved to San Dimas. We are showing Irish Setters; dirt bike riding; (Yes I have a Quad) Camping, traveling--a lot to see our families; panning for gold; trap shooting (Yes, I am still shooting and loving it) and working in the yard, garden, and orchard. We have 12-13 fruit trees that keep us in fresh fruit all year round. We have Bear, mountain lions, coyotes, deer, rattle snakes and fire that come to our back yard (6/3 we had the bear and a fire from lighting!). It is just like living in Montana �Vif you don��t like it wait 5 minutes it��ll change!!! . We have 2 neighbors- one on each side of us.

Our Irish Setters are on the website Finisterre-setters.com. Cassie is our pride and joy as in 2006 she was number 4 in the United States and won an Award of Excellence at Eukanuba along with an invite to Crups in England. She was ready to go to England but my father passed and we missed taking her there. In 2007, we bred our two Irish and had a litter of 10. What a wonderful experience. We kept 2 of the puppies so we now have "4 red fur people" in our lives that keep us hoping. The 2--2 year olds showed this last weekend (5/30) and both won their class. I guess we will be on the road again. Cassie and Corey are both in Rally and doing well.

I have developed Rheumatoid Arthritis and have had foot surgery; did chemo for 2 years for the RA to get it under control, and I have had to temporarily give up my beloved tennis. I still play a mean game of golf though. I still love to laugh; play a good joke on someone; hear a good joke and people watch.

I have been blessed with 5 grandchildren. Jake has 3 boys, 15, 13, and 9. He lives in Belgrade and has his own Electric Company --Kleimer��s Electric. My Daughter, Shawn has 2 children 4 and 1, a daughter and a son. Shawn and family live in Portland Ore. Shawn has her Teaching Credential in Elementary education and does book keeping in the evenings as her day job is running her home and raising her children. Matt my son in-law Works for Symantec. I have also acquired god children-3, Lupe who is now grown and has 2 of her own children 8 and 7, but Charles and I have been adopted by them. Lupe and the babies lived with us for 3 years. We have had another family living with us now and she has 2 children 14 and 5. Our house is never quit.

My husband, Charles is in Real Estate, selling houses, commercial management as in manages the tall building in down town LA. He has been in all most all of them. He has also worked for Symantec and traveled to India, Germany, Italy, England, and Ireland. He was gone a lot. But since the stock market crash in January he is now doing Real Estate here in the LA basin. He is working for UCLA . It sure is nice to have him close to home--he was traveling at the time the terrorist were in full bloom and I worried constantly.

One of my crafts is that I make Cakes. I make specialty cakes--6 pack of beer; the Millennium from Star Wars; Cody--my nephew's dog; a stearman airplane; just about anything--a lot of wedding cakes and special birthday cakes over the years. I was given a gift from my mother of candy making and I make Almond Roca. I do a lot through the year and especially the holidays everyone wants a pound or two!! They tell me, "once they eat my candy they never go back to the pink can candy--I have ruined it for them for life".

Well, I guess that is what I have been up to for the last 40 years. I am thankful for all the things and people who have touched my life and the lives I touch every day. I hope that I have made a difference in some of the children I have worked with and the adults I have had the pleasure to work with.

I have had the experience of a life time--to be born in The Big Sky of Montana and spend 25 years in Hollywood and 15 years in San Dimas. My generation watched the 1st Moon landing and now we fly in and out like there is nothing to it. I grew up with Pluto as a planet and now poor Pluto has been kicked to the curb and downsized. Viet Nam were depressing words to our ears as our classmates went off to war, Canada or College�XThanks to every VET out there that has given of his time or life�Xyou have given me so much everyday to be thankful for. I am a daughter of a Navy vet of WWII, a Mother of Navy Seal and President of the Largest Chapter of Classified Employees Union in the USA. I could not have been that President if someone had not paid for the Freedom I have at hand every day of my adult life. Thank you all who have served and are serving our country. I appreciate what you do. What an exciting time to be alive. I am waiting to see Mars and the Moon together for the 1st time in 60,000 years, in August. The advancement of surgery and medicine that just leaves me spellbound. These are just a few of the wows in my 40 years and all I can say now is ��Wow, bring on the next 40 years I can��t wait to see more��. ������
I hope to see everyone at the reunion and get caught up.

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