3 days after we graduated from HS my family left Mt. Lebanon for the Crothers farm in Taylorstown, Washington County.  I went to The College of Wooster, graduating in 1976 with a degree in Economics and Art History.  I remember little of the former and most of the later. 

Summer of 1974 Jayne Shepherd, my sister and I traveled around Europe – the whole eur-rail pass adventure.  After college I taught English to Spaniards in Madrid for 1 ½ years.

 When I returned to the States my dad, who worked in the same office building as Paul Good, made sure he got one of my resumes.   We have been married for almost 34 years now.  And we’ve lived in the same Mt. Lebanon house for 30 of them.

 My brief years working for PNB (now PNC) aren’t worth mentioning.  I was fortunate to stay home raising our 4 kids.  Even though we spent too much time in Children’s Hospital (cancer and kidney transplants) they all grew up.  Catherine works for Pittsburgh Glass Works in Import/Export Compliance & Logistics.  Adam is a formulations chemist for Bayer in Berkeley, CA.  Everett, our only one married, is a CPA for KPMG here in Pgh but is always traveling.  Madeline just graduated from VA Tech’s Certified Financial Planner track and is job hunting.

 When people ask me what I do I say I make other peoples’ lives work – all volunteer, mostly through my church or with the patients and their families at Family Hospice & Palliative Care.  I spend hours gardening at various places and love playing tennis.  Currently, my main project is fundraising for a Haiti water project.  We’re installing solar-powered water purification systems in several Haitian villages.

 Several people have told me they want to come back as my dog - for the great life.  Paul and I spend a lot of time in the woods letting our dog be a dog.  All you canine lovers know that their passing is the pits.

 Paul and I will see you at the reunion when you can hear his end of the story.