Graduated from Wayne State 1970 and got married the same Fall. Moved to Midland where my husband worked for Dow Chemical.
Have two sons, Andy and Marc.
Completed 2/3 of my graduate degree in Library Science computing to U 0f M part-time when the kids were older.
Then my back went out, parents started getting sick, and my husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Tom had many sugeries and chemo. Father died and Mother into a nursing home. Meanwhile I was working part-time at the hospital library!!! I almost lived there for years!
Then I worked part-time at Great Lakes Junior college as their Library Assistant.
Tom had brain surgery finally and lived 41/2 years after the first diagnosis.
After the death of my husband in 1995, I didn't do much of anything. Got a couple of part-time jobs, but nothing that lasted very long. I was laid off from Great Lakes Junior college as their Library Assitant ( a job I loved) the summer my husband was in his last months.
But 18 months after his death, in Jan. of 1997, my church friend talked me into joining her line dancing class. I was addicted from the start (first dance I learned was Cruisin' to the Beach Boys song!).
Met and started dating a divorced member of the class and the original instructor of the class. I also got a job as Library Assistant in one of the junior highs. After 9 months Dow let him go and he moved to Indianapolis to work for Eli Lily. We did the long distance thing for 2 years and I moved down in 1999. But before I even moved into my own place, I realized I hated the traffic and missed my family, and the security of home and friends. Truth be told, I paniced. So I came home with the burden of two broken hearts.
I was physically and emotionally exhausted. Losing two partners in 4 years was too much. I quit dancing and was sick for a very long time. I just heard my partner quit dancing for 6 years also.
But after 10 years, I have gone back to a line dance class for seniors at the Community Center. I didn't know if I could do it, both physically and emotionally. But I have continued and go two mornings a week. I have found bittersweet enjoyment again.
I know it doesn't sound like much - but for so long I really had nothing. I have two sweet grandchildren, Jeffrey (almost 6) and Addie (3) whom I don't see enough. And I now have some more joy, dancing in my life again after so long!!
Sorry this is so long and sorry I won't see all of you at the reunion. I absolutely loved high school ( I remember crying after MCing the Honor's Assembly - it was really over). I just needed, I guess, to put it all down in writing and seeing how much I have been through. It may not have been careers, honors, and a whole lot of retirement fun. But I am still here and since life has choose to give me lemons, I'm at least now making a few ounces of lemonade each week with my vines, shuffles, and kick-ball-changes ( dancing terms!)!!!
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