2022 - 50th Since the 2012 bio much has stayed constant - same husband, same address, same outlook on life. All good. Three of our four children now live in Pittsburgh. While visiting the San Francisco Bay area was lots of fun, I prefer having him and his wife nearby. This mother hen would like to get the fourth one closer too. Patience. From Atlanta next stop for them is Minneapolis. All four are married and all have stayed employed during Covid. Yay! They are on different career paths –international trade compliance, new drug development, finance and investor relations, and a personal financial planner. (I shouldn’t be surprised as I consider them North, South, East and West.) Best family times for me are our Sunday dinners. Not to be one stuck in a rut, they are frequently my new recipe Guinee pigs. (Wine uncorks at 5PM for the cook before all arrive.) My church still keeps me busy. I passed the baton moderating the Deacons for over a decade and picked up many behind-the-scene details of Building & Grounds. It’s an on-going education – details I won’t bore you with here. FYI – I’m far from the Dana Carvey Church Lady. I’ve been a volunteer at Family Hospice since 2007. Until recently, it was in the former Ward Home building across from Jefferson School. It breaks my heart to see UPMC sell the space. For years, I maintained its courtyard garden, talking to many family members who had patients there and came out for a break. (Actually, it would be my dog who attracted them out.) Who knew so many people liked German Shepherds! Somehow she seemed to sense their trials and lift spirits.) I now make bereavement calls. In the volunteer category I am also a board member of Giving 2 Grow, which gives grants to organizations addressing childhood hunger in W. PA. It’s shocking how wide-spread the need is. Paul (now retired) and I take our lucky lab Abby to the woods daily, allowing her the freedom to explore and chase critters. We actually cut down grape and choke vines to help save trees. Call us tree lovers, call us dorks. Favorite things: playing tennis, gardening, playing with our two grandkids (so fun - especially when their parents aren’t hovering), watching the Pens (not so much the Steelers and couldn’t care less about the Pirates), country music, and during Covid binging on Netflix. When you return to Pittsburgh I hope you hear a genuine Yinzer accent. I can’t do it but that too makes me smile! 2012 - 40th Three 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.