2022 - 50th Hello Classmates! Looking forward to seeing everyone soon! After reading all of the bios posted, I’m really impressed by what everyone has done since ’72. When I left Mt Lebanon in the fall of 1972 to go to Ohio State, I had no idea where life would take me. After graduating in ’76 I decided to stay in Columbus. I went to work for Borden (Elsie the Cow) in 1978, became a car racing fan, working as Crew on a friend’s SCCA team and Hospitality Coordinator on another friend’s Indy Lights team, working at races at Mid-Ohio, Detroit, Meadowlands, & Toronto. I also enjoyed going to the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400 for about 20 years. In Aug 2001, after spending literally ½ of my life at Borden, it was dismantled, and I began 10 months of severance. That December my dad fell at home in Mt Lebanon and, thankfully, I was able to go home and help out while he spent 2 weeks in St. Clair Hospital. My sister and I began getting our home of 43 years prepped and it sold in a few short months, with the help of Mt. Lebo Art Teacher and Coldwell Banker Million Dollar Realtor, Mark Pelusi. We moved Daddy to an Assisted Living facility in Columbus, until he passed in Oct 2002. About the same time, I began a new job with American Dairy Association & Dairy Council for the next 6 yrs. Then I went to work “part time” for 1.5 years at a friend’s warehouse, mocking up Krylon paint cans for trade shows. Finally, I began a 12-year career with a Jazzercise friend sewing window treatments for several Columbus Parade of Homes houses, regular residential customers, friends and relatives. We’ve “retired” from sewing, but still help each other on jobs for friends and family. My sister, Leigh ’71, and I enjoy travelling. Our travel log includes Switzerland, New Zealand, Banff, Hawaii multiple times, Alaska, and many other states and National Parks. Next year we hope to go to Scotland and England. I’ve also enjoyed tent camping with a sorority sister for 40+ years, getting to all 58 Ohio State Park campgrounds at least once. Now that she and her husband have a camper, we can go 1st class or primitive! While marriage has eluded me, I’ve become the “crazy cat lady”, having had 6 cats at one point, but now I have just 2, Bailey, 19 years old and Sophie, 2 years old. I cherish my numerous friends from Mt Lebanon, Ohio State, ADPi sorority, Borden, Jazzercise and the intersection of many of those! When you’ve been a part of so many big entities, you’re bound to run into people you know everywhere! I ran into Ed Chilcoat at a bookstore in Worthington OH before our 20 yr reunion, Teri Evans ’73 at a Jazzercise friend’s apt, Mary Jane Hutchison at St. Clair Hospital when my father was admitted, as well as 6 other Pittsburghers on a Grand Canyon Colorado River rafting trip! Mt. Lebanon began my vast pool of friends and I’m so glad my parents moved to Mt. Lebanon because of its great school system, before my sister and I were born! Mt. Lebanon will always be HOME!