After Trinity, I returned home and began working in the Microbiology Laboratory at Greenwich Hospital. After a year and a half, I took the summer off and spent 3 months in Europe. I was lucky to come back to my job and was made Supervisor/Manager after 2 years.
Everything changed dramatically over the years. In addition to all the Microbiology changes, the computer age came and I had to do 2 computer builds to enter results.
Every year, I took a skiing, out West or Europe, vacation and in summer, a vacation to some interesting destination from Africa to South America.
The years flew by until I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. After a double mastectomy, reconstruction and thankfully cured, I retired at the end of 2012. Since retirement, I spend a lot of time at the gym, in Florida, traveling or visiting friends and wondering where the 50 years have gone. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone.
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After graduation I moved to Kittery, Maine and took a job with the N.H Division of Welfare in Portsmouth N.H. where I worked as a social worker in Child and Family services for 5 yrs. I worked solely in adoptions for 1 year and was on the Adoption Committee for the State of N.H.
I met and married my husband , an engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1971 and when we had our first child , a son in 1973, I retired and stayed home for 15 yrs. In 1975 we had a daughter. While staying home and raising the kids I pursued many outside interests including tennis which I still play 3-4 days a week.
I went back to work after that as a social worker with the elder population as a long term care social worker (I loved it and retired again after 23 yrs).
I have been retired for 7 yrs. now and love spending time with the 6 grandchildren we have and traveling as much as we can fit in! We took a trip with my best friend from TC (Kathy Kane Authier) and her husband and went on the Danube (Viking River cruise) We just booked another trip together to National Parks (Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Mt. Rushmore)
My son graduated from St. Mike's in 1995 and daughter graduated from University of Maine in 1998. My son Jonathan lives locally and has a 6 yr. old boy and a 3 yr.old girl. My daughter Kelley lives in Wisconsin and has 4 children, 3 biological girls( ages 14, 12, and 6 ) and an adopted son, 10, from the Philippines.
We are blessed in many ways!
As many of us did, I married David Cheney right after graduating from Trinity. A year later our first son was born in Burlington. Then we were off to Denver for David's internship and number two son. Then off to Texas for David's residency and number three child, a daughter. Enough. We did our pay back to the military for David’s education in Hawaii. Wonderful experience raising children without shoes. We then settled in Austin Texas where I finished my master's degree in Social work at another Catholic school. Which meant I had been attending all Catholic schools since kindergarten.
I really enjoyed policy and became the Legislative Coordinator for The Texas National Association of Social Work. I then took a position as a lobbyist for the Texas Catholic Conference and The Texas Conference of Catholic Health Facilities. We were called the GOD Lobby.
In 1989 David was infected with HIV and our lives abruptly changed. He retired from medicine and we moved back to Vermont where we both became very active in HIV education. David died of AIDS in 1999. It is a wonderful thing to witness how far we have come since 1989.
I live on the farm in Charlotte, my children are happy and healthy and I have four beautiful grandchildren. I spend time collecting eggs, camping and traveling
Life post Trinity has been a great adventure from first meeting and marrying a Wall Street attorney shortly after graduation, to later establishing roots as a Texan, and raising four sons as a doctor’s wife in a small town in rural East Texas.
After graduation, while teaching at PS 121 in the Bronx, I began working on a Masters Degree at Hunter College in New York City. I soon met the love of my life at Paddy Quinns Pub on East 79th Street, a fellow alum of a catholic college and then a successful and practicing attorney. We married in 1970 and began saving for a house in the suburbs. A short while later, however, we began contemplating a different direction for our happily ever after.
In June of 1974, we sold what we owned, packed our remaining clothes, bought a Volkswagen bug that could be locally serviced and moved to beautiful Guadalajara, Mexico. Bob started medical school at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara and I joined in the games(mostly bridge) and activities(mostly having babies) of the forcibly unemployed student spouses. With a low cost of living, a perfect climate, and drugs not yet a big issue, life in Guadalajara was almost idyllic.
We returned to the states several years later for five more years of internship and residency training, with our first son, Alex, in tow and our second on the way. After four years of living in sunny Dallas while Bob completed his residency program, it was difficult to even consider moving back to winter.
Now 30+ years later, and with 4 married sons all living in Dallas, we still love living on a lake, Lake Athens, in a small town 80 miles southeast of Dallas. Bob continues to work three days a week in his busy ophthalmology practice, and our long weekends are generally hectic and fun and split between our home in Athens and our Condo in Dallas which is close to our 4 sons, 4 lovely daughters-in-law, and seven young grandchildren.
In my free time I enjoy family and friends, Tai Chi and pottery and serving on the board of our property owners association.
It has been fun reconnecting and staying in touch with Terry and Diane and Sheila, and I am looking forward to catching up with everyone through your bios and in person at the reunion!!
It’s been an interesting last 50 years. I got married in November of 1968 to Bob O’Neill from SMC. He was in the Army at the time flying helicopters. So we were at different duty stations in the southeast where I vowed I would never live again when we were done in the Army. And yet, here I am in Sharpsburg, Ga. for the last 20 years.
We have four children, one daughter-in-law and one grandson. Unfortunately, our grandson and family live on the west coast. Our daughter lives in Seattle, Wa. We travel out there at least once a year which is better than nothing. Our other two sons (and future daughter-in-law) live in the Atlanta area. I was lucky to be a stay at home mom until 1989 when the youngest was 6. Lots of PTO and room mom volunteering, plus being busy with the Junior Womens’ League and local town politics.
We moved around quite a bit from different states in New England, Illinois, Texas, Alabama, Maryland, back to New Jersey for a while and now settled in Georgia. When I started working, it was part-time at McDonald’s and I found I really like the people interaction. My degree in sociology also really came in handy. I went on to management school for McDonald’s but eventually left when we moved to Georgia and switched to Cracker Barrel. Good company to work for, great food, the customers are like a family organization that everyone has something to say. After 13 years with them I retired in 2014 and its been very relaxing.
We’ve been very lucky to be able to travel extensively all around the world and we’ve enjoyed all of it. And in the immortal words of Joe Walsh,”Life’s been good to me so far.”
After graduation I worked at Williston Central School. For three years I taught sixth-grade Social Studies, PE for first through third grades, and Science for sixth and seventh grades. In addition, I was the Coach for the girls’ basketball and softball teams. In my last year I coached boys’ soccer, which is a story on its own!
In 1971 I moved to Orlando, Florida, and attended Rollins College where I received my Master’s degree, majoring in Guidance and Counseling with a minor in Administration and Supervision. During my graduate studies, I worked at the Juvenile Detention Center, which was quite an experience.
In 1972 I worked in Orlando at Hiawassee Elementary School for three years as a Guidance Counselor. I then moved on to the Adult Vocational center in Winter Park, also as a Guidance Counselor, and was there until 1987. A unique position came about, also in Orlando, and I became an Administrator for the Boone Community School, where I oversaw faculty and staff for courses offered at the Vocational Schools. In Florida, at that time, the Vocational Schools offered High School Credit programs as well as GED, in addition to various, specific vocational training. As Administrator assigned to Boone Community School, I was also responsible for a number of satellite schools. I was the first female hired for this position.
It was at this time that my life changed. A friend of mine asked if I would like to go to a workshop to hear Ramtha, a channeled entity by JZ Knight. This event was life-changing, and I wanted to know more. So my friend and I decided to move West to be closer to the school and its teachings. I resigned my position in Orlando in 1988 and moved to Washington State. I became part of Ramtha’ School of Enlightenment (RSE) and attended many events. I got hired in 1990 and began working at the School as event and product liaison. I worked at RSE until 2003 at which time I moved back into Education. I substituted in the area public schools for a couple of years. After that I taught Language Arts and Science at a private school for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
When that school closed, I went back to substituting until I was offered to work as an assistant with second- and third- graders in another private school, where I am currently now. After working with Middle School and High School, I wasn’t sure about the little ones, but I love them! I assist the teacher and am the recess monitor. I only work four days a week. It is perfect.
I have been involved with Ramtha’s school for many years, since its beginning, and have learned so much about quantum physics, the brain, the mind, the strength we all have, and I incorporate that every day into my life.
And on a personal note: I was a member of Toastmasters in Florida and helped institute Toastmasters here in Yelm. I have a third-degree brown belt in Judo, a green belt in Karate, and I won third place in a Florida State Competition. I am a pilot and flew my own Cessna 172. And I am a skilled in cake decorating and woodcarving.
The summer following graduation was amazing. Two other alums and I spent two months knocking around Europe and the UK. God bless Icelandic Airlines and the Eurail Pass. Finally had to retire my Irish knit, though.
Back home in NY, I settled into the local Dept. of Social Services but Vietnam was still in full swing. I wasn’t much of a sign-carrying protester, so opted to make a different sort of protest/contribution. I took a job with the American Red Cross and went to Vietnam myself. While there, I met a pilot, came home, got married.
Once discharged from the Army, we took jobs working the fire season in Mt. Hood National Forest. I drove a flatbed truck loaded with 55 gal. drums of jet fuel. What was I thinking?
We returned to the east coast and a farm in PA. I started gardening and opened my own natural food store. Tough times in my marriage, however, led to my becoming a single parent but my little raisin cookie, Jess, was a dream. She survived a life-threatening illness at 15 months and I survived a second stint as a Caseworker.
Returning to NY, I hooked up with an agency that served a MR/DD and TBI population. THIS was my niche.
Retirement has been a gift. Time with friends, both new and established and a gentle pace of life. I continue to be involved in my previous agency, volunteer with Hospice and foster a senior dog from the shelter. The only thing I would change is spending more time with that raisin cookie who now lives in Boston.
When I arrived in Burlington in 1964 from Brooklyn, NY, I felt like I was in a foreign country and didn't speak the language! Suddenly I was among girls who grew up in mostly New England towns on tree-lined, picket-fenced streets. I looked tough with my teased hair and tight black skirts, but the wildest thing I did in high school was to roll up my Catholic school uniform skirt after school and put on eyeliner. Suddenly the girls who surrounded me (who wore matching heather pleated skirts and sweaters) told tales of their climbing out of their bedroom windows, staying out all night to drink beer…unimaginable to me!
But by the time Christmas vacation rolled around I was wearing all of that heather and had toned down my teased hair considerably. Burlington and Trinity were the beginning of my transformation and openness to new experiences, people and places. And represented an incredible education in more ways than one!
Right after graduation, I married David Pascucci from UVM. We moved to CT and I taught 4th and 5th grades. The marriage went south and I ended up living in St. Thomas in the VIrgin Islands (thank you Ginny Grim!) for a little over a year.
After returning to NY I got a job at a large international ad agency, Benton & Bowles (B&B). Started as a secretary and ended up moving up to Account Executive in two years, an unprecedented transition in those days. B&B groomed me in marketing and was the beginning of a wonderful career journey. Later I joined American Express as Manager of Marketing for travelers cheques and had the good fortune of traveling to wonderful places to shoot tv commercials…Rome, Greece, Venice, etc.
Met my creative-genius, terrific husband, Don Blauweiss (thanks for designing the Trinity 50th Anniversary logo) while at B&B. Don was on the creative end of marketing and I was on the business end. He was offered a position as creative director of the Brussels office of B&B and I left American Express to join him. While I didn't know if I could get a job there, I was hired by Ogilvy & Mather, another large international agency.
Most Americans abroad choose to live in "American communities." We chose to live in a 100-year-old farmhouse in the middle of Flemish farm country. (My openness to new experiences came from Trinity days. Don taught me to be creative and adventuresome). Our neighbors down the road became our adopted Belgian family and we visit them and they us regularly over the 37 years since we left. Back in NYC took a job as VP of marketing at a benefits consulting and investment management firm. Stayed there 8 years and ended up joining Don in his boutique ad agency, which we're still running.
Never had kids myself but have adopted Don's kids who live close by to us. My niece is like a daughter to me and her 3 girls. Between our Belgian and our American family and our business and travel adventures, our life is very full. It's been lovely and I've been blessed!
Look forward to seeing my Trinity classmates particularly the girls who used to climb out of their bedroom windows to drink beer all night….Sheila, Terry and Mary Jane!
Fifty years is a long time . . . and yet, it seems like only yesterday that I was facing Sr. Mary Edmond bright and early at the front desk of McCauly Hall to discuss—well, there really was never any discussion—to listen, as I was lectured for some infraction of the many rules. There is one thing that she said that has stayed with me all these years and Denise and I laugh about it—“Remember who you are and What you represent” –- not bad advice.
My first job was at a regional high school in Dalton, Ma. There were two part-time positions that they were trying to fill—phys ed and bus ed. The superintendent asked if I might be interested in taking both on giving me a full-time position. Well, the bus ed was no problem—the phys ed—did I think I could handle a couple of classes? I said sure, why not. The phys ed was a little challenging as I had never heard of soccer let alone teach it—and then there was the trampoline—OMG, never been on one! All turned out well and I enjoyed my teaching there—just not enough action in Pittsfield plus living at home was not making it.
So, off to Cape Cod for the summer while trying to find a teaching position in the Boston area. Denise, Sue Graf Sharpe and I rented a cottage in Falmouth and had a blast. I met my future husband that summer, found a job in a junior high (not too fond of that age group) outside of Boston and the three of us rented a brand new townhouse—it was great, but we had no furniture or household items—we survived for a year.
I got married in 1971 and moved to the Cape. I continued to teach on the high school level for ten years until my son was born at which time I wanted to be a stay at home mom.
50 years? There must be some mistake! Check that date again. Carol Muller insists it’s accurate. Damn, I haven’t gotten to the North Pole yet (life-long dream) and now the place is underwater and the polar bears are starving. Make a new plan, Fran.
After some travel and adventures, I ended up on Martha’s Vineyard in 1970 and am still there. I have raised 3 children, a herd of milk goats, pigs, turkeys, innumerable chickens, and a fair number of youthful transients, on 3 acres with a sizable garden, fruit trees, and grape vines.
I married, divorced, taught 8th grade for 30 years, earned an MA and Ed.D, reunited with my St. Michael’s boyfriend, Vito Angelillo until his death in 2005, retired from teaching, and took a job supervising high school students in mentorships.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved having kids, but I’m not so sure about adult children. Can’t just feed them, soothe them, and put them down for a nap. They have adult concerns and problems and who needs more of them? But, they have provided me the greatest gift to any parent - grandchildren. Oldest son, Rick, a mental health counselor in Montana, and his wife a Native American poet and writer have 3 children, Alexa 17 graduates from St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH this year. She and I took a road trip to Burlington last spring to visit UVM and St. Michael’s. What a rush it was to walk those same streets we all walked to shop on Church St. or eat at Bove’s on Friday nights. Her brother James 14 started high school in Ronan, MT and bagged his first deer this year. Two things they have in Montana are deer and guns! Johnny, age 11, is a fisherman and has all the qualities for success in that arena - patience, quietude, and thoughtfulness.
Daughter Courtney married this summer to Jerome Tomaselli, whom we all adore. She works in Development for Harvard and he is an industrial designer with Bose. They are avid cyclists and travelers. Youngest son Devan is fisherman-farmer-apprentice plumber on the Vineyard. Life has presented him with real challenges and his struggles are the pain that any mother carries for their struggling children.
My days are filled with gardening, pruning, cooking, putting food by, reading, walking, yoga, and keeping up with the innumerable nieces and nephews and their new babies. I have immeasurable gratitude for my home, my health, my family, my friends, and my Alanon community.
Ready for that new plan. Have some travel in the near future - to Northern Scotland, the Shetlands, and the Outer Hebrides. To be joined by friends in England and some more skilled knitters than I. See you in June.
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