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Mary Proffitt Hoisington

Hard to believe it’s been more than 20 years since high school, even though it seems a lifetime ago.
Although I dated Matt in high school and through college, we weren’t married until 1991. After graduating from FHSU with a degree in Business Administration, I worked in the banking and manufactured housing industry until we moved to Great Bend in 1993 and I joined the newspaper (Accountant) there. In 1998, I was transferred from Great Bend to Statesboro, GA—NW of Savannah (Group Controller) for 2 years, and then transferred to Ellsworth, KS (Publisher) for about 18 months. Then I was transferred back to Great Bend (Regional Controller) until 2004 when I was transferred to Gainesville, GA—NE of Atlanta (Regional Controller). By 2006 with two children Marissa (1995) and Josh (2002) and after having lived in metro Atlanta for 2 years we decided we had enough of the “city” life, besides I wouldn’t consider what the schools “taught” education—at least not the things we wanted our kids to learn. So Matt sold his business and I quit my job and we moved to Paradise, KS unemployed. Fortunately we had a weekend home we could crash at until we decided what we wanted to do. Matt took a job with the Kansas Department of Commerce and we ended up buying a home in Great Bend, again. Shortly after returning I was offered the Publisher’s position at the newspaper and so I decided to rejoin the media group I had left only a few months before.
Our free time is now consumed with a multitude of children’s activities, volunteering, and frequent visits to Paradise for hiking, fishing, hunting & canoeing, although it’s not unusual to catch me reading a good book. We still make it to Russell for church a dozen or so times a year, spend a lot of money at Yost’s, replenish our Paradise supplies from Klema’s and enjoy catching up with schoolmates when passing through.

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