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Sallie Beaumont Mackie

Hi to all who stop by to visit me and I am lucky in that Bedford was small enough for as I said in Classmates.com "where everybody knows your name". You should see where I came from before my senior year. The school had two varsity football teams and so did the other accross town, in Anchorage, Alaska.
When I left Bedford dad retired and became a professor in Wocester and I went to Worcester State because I just did not want to move again. Met my husband first weekend at a fraternity party at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
After college I married at 22 and joined him in Rochester, New York, because he worked for Kodak. I became a social worker in different agencies and different capacities. I was a pioneer and had to wing it at times. I would be working on the streets with addicts, prostitutes (ducking their pimps),etc. This was when I was in my twenties, I had shear guts then. You know we were out of the sixties and I was going to save the world. O.K. so I didn't, but settled for the idea that if I could save one child my career would be worth it.
We moved back in 1979 and I went to work for the Department of Social Services,and remain there. In 1981 I had my first son John and 1983 I had Jeff.
Life is never dull in my field, one must be flexible and able to multi-task.
I am still me, friendly, a smile on my face because every day I want to live to the fullest. I was told today that I could be friendly with the devil, not sure Iwould go that far.
I want to thank all of you for accepting me into the class of 67 as a senior and making me feeling welcomed. Thank you for finding me because I wanted to find you!!! Kathy Plouff found me and I want to thank her for bringing me to this site. My memories of before college are so blurred and not from old age. I had no one to share my youth with and as time went on and on my memories faded. I hope my memory returns as time goes on in the sites. BHS was so warm and I do so remember being happy and that is not how I expected to feel after leaving a school I had attended for three years and a few of you knew I also had left behind the first love in my life and did not date anyone until second semester. So when this 16 year old walked into those doors for the first day she was scared and wounded yet I remember that so quickly I felt at home.
I have never had a regret that I went there that year and graduated with the best!!

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