Barrett, Barbara Chase (b. --Not Shown--)

Note: Dave and Barb Lucas
1218 East 6th St.
Royal Oak, MI 48067
(313)541-6093

!Barbara Chase Barrett. Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett
Family Reunion held August 11, 1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
CHILDHOOD:
--An upbringing appropriately Barrett-like in its love of dogs (and other
living things), nature, books, and creativity.
--Pleasant memories of playing in the fields and barns of Richland Acres, the
beaches of Lake Michigan, the farm at Corsons', the mountains of Chile, etc.
.
HIGH SCHOOL:
--not happy in public school, so spent last two years at Interlochen Arts
Academy: a great school in northern Michigan. Studied visual arts, enjoyed the
woods.
--Adventures: canoeing, backpacking,spelunking, summer in Mexico, etc.
.
COLLEGE:
--First year at Hampshire (an "alternative" school) in Amherst, Mass. Didn't
fit in, so escaped to the hills of Kentucky: found a volunteer job and a room
to rent. The people a welcome change from the eastern elite.
--Transfered to Univ. of Michigan in Ann Arbor: studied anthropology, got a job
running senior citizens' programs after graduation.
--Went through a one-year master's program in Blind Rehabilitation in Kalamazoo:
interesting, but no jobs.
--Completed a two-year master's in Occupational Therapy: lots of jobs,
a versatile degree.
.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH (sheep farm, that is):
--Married Dave in 1981, became caretakers of a small sheep farm in Kalamazoo.
--Travelled together in Europe (working at a sheep farm in England, camping in
Greece), Mexico, and U.S., including a great trip to the Olympic Peninsula!
.
DETROIT:
--Moved to Royal Oak, to be near Wayne State Medical School. Dave went through
the four-year program, is now in a five-year Pathology residency.
--My first OT job: at an inner-city hospital with hard-core psychiatric
patients--too scary for me.
--My second, third and fourth OT jobs: all in hand therapy--I love it,
especially making splints and designing adaptive equipment.
--Working part-time/contingent only now, active in recycling/environmental
education volunteer group.
.
MEANWHILE:
Alison Marie born 5/1/87, Joseph David born 12/26/89.
Life is now a roller coaster ride: lots of highs and lows, with no time to
think about where you are going, just savoring (and/or surviving!) life moment
by moment.

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Note: R. T. Barrett, Jr.
694 Fasola Road
Sequim, Washington 98382
(206)683-5486

! Robertson T. Barrett, Jr. (Bob) spent the first two years of his life in
Yonkers, NY where his father was editor of the Yonkers Daily News. In 1920 the
family returned to Katonah, and lived first on Cottage Street and then moved to
Hillcote, which was built in 1926. Bob attended Katonah Public Schools. At age
14 he was sent to live with Alfred and Alice Smith on their farm in Treadwell,
NY where he milked cows and attended Kellogg High School in Treadwell. In his
junior year he was sent to the Loomis School for Boys in Windsor, CT, where he
played football on the school team. His senior year he attended White Plains
High School where he took courses in autoshop.
In the summers, Bob did carpentry work for Bill Kelly, then went full time at
$3-5/day. He then became an Apprentice Carpenter, earning $5-6/day. He also
worked on the Delaware Water Aquaduct as a carpenter for $12.00/day.
Bob then obtained a football scholarship to Syracuse University to play
football (end). His purpose was to be near Margaret (Peggy) Sloat who was
attending school there. However, he was always interested in airplanes and his
scoutmaster, who was a pilot, got him a job as a gasboy. He did not attend
Syracuse. He worked as a gasboy at Armonk Airport and obtained his private
license (total cost = $80.00). He made daily weather checks and thereby built
up his flight time. He then moved to Bristol, VT and for $200/month worked for
the U.S. Civilian Pilot Training program teaching college students to fly. In
this way, he obtained his Instructor and Commercial licenses. He then ran the
Westport, NY airport, located on the west side of Lake Champlain. He and Peggy
were married at this time.
He and Peggy left Bristol with $200 cash, a 1939 Chevy plus a dog and a cat
and went to Orangeburg, SC. Bob instructed cadets in the Army Primary Training
Program at the Hawthorne School of Aeronautics.
In the spring of 1943 Bob was hired by Consolidated in North Carolina as a
co-pilot. His job was to ferry PBYs from California to North Carolina for
modification to British specifications.
Bob was transferred to San Diego in the spring of 1944 where he worked for
Consairway, a subsidiary of Consolidated. He spent the war years flying to and
from the Pacific Theater. After the end of World War II, Bob worked for the
Pacific Overseas Airways (POA) and flew to Tokyo for one year, until POA folded
in early 1947. Bob then worked as a house framer in Ontario, CA for nine
months. He says this time period was "shitsville."
Henry Erdmann contacted Bob and offered him a job as a pilot at Trans-Texas
Airways, a new Texas airline. He worked for Trans-Texas from 1947-1969 flying
the DC-3, the Convair 240/600, and the DC-9. His hobbies included furniture and
house building, model train building, automobile rebuilding, and reading
(especially Civil War historical material). He retired in 1969 to his farm in
Sequim, WA. In Sequim he worked for the Clallum Public Utility District reading
meters. He raised and bred cattle and farmed. He had fruit trees and he and
Peggy grew most of their vegetables. He continued to build extensively. He
resided at 214 Ipswich and 139 Santa Fe in Houston, and 694 Fasola Road in
Sequim, WA.

SOURCE: (1) R.S.Barrett, 11446 Kirkvalley, Hou, TX 77089, 1993.
(2) Revised by R.T. Barrett Jr. February 24, 1995

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Note: ! Peggy Barrett lived on the Sequim, WA, farm with Bob Barrett for 23 years.
She was in excellent health, although she did smoke. She did not like doctors
and had not visited one in 15 years. On 6 July 1992 Debbie Barrett and children
were over in the afternoon to pick Royal Anne cherries. At about 6:00pm Peggy
and Debbie talked across the dining room table and Debbie said she had to go
home so she would be there when Bruce returned. Debbie, Bob and others went out
to load the car. Debbie went back in to get Pete when she saw Peggy in the big
chair, her left arm shaking. Debbie realized Peggy was in convulsions. Pete ran
out and told Bob, "something bad is wrong with grandma." They put Peggy on the
floor, Debbie performed CPR, and 911 was called. EMTs arrived in eight minutes.
They said her heart was not beating when they arrived and they restarted it. It
also stopped once on the way to the hospital. She was put on life support at the
Olympic Memorial Hospital at Port Angeles but actually she had died instantly in
the big chair. Bob, Rob and Betty, John, and Bruce and Debbie were at the
hospital about 9:15pm on 7 July 1992 and the decision was finalized to remove
Peggy from life-support. The paper was signed and life-support was removed.
Betty and Debbie, two daughters-in-law, attended to Peggy during this time.
Within 10 minutes Peggy was declared dead by the attending nurse, Ann Duren.
Peggy's remains were cremated, as she wished. The memorial service was held in
the apple/cherry orchard at the farm on 11 July 1992, a beautiful sunny day with
fruit on the trees and birds in the sky. Forty-three family members and friends
stood in a circle, around flower arrangements made by Martha and Debbie, and
spoke of Peggy in words from the heart or read previously written words and
poems. Three statements from family members out of town were received by fax and
read at the service.
Peggy was educated at Katonah High School and Syracuse University. Burial
plot 138.

Death: 7 JUL 1992 Port Angeles, Clallam, WA

Burial: 4 OCT 1992 Union Cemetery, Bedford, NY

Note: Martha E. Barrett
10566 High Hollows #154
Dallas, TX 75230
(214)691-8759

!Martha Elizabeth Barrett was educated in Houston Public Schools. She
graduated from Texas Womens University in 1964 with a Bachelors's Degree in
Advertising Art. She was an Art Designer for Hallmark Cards and in 1968 became
a Freelance Graphic Designer. In about 1990 she took employment with JCPenney
working in their catalogue design department.

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Note: !Robertson Sloat Barrett - Autobiographical sketch - Prepared 05/26/93
I was born in Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, New York. Mom and
Martha came north and stayed with Grandpa Barrett and Aunt Heidi in preparation
for my birth. Dad did not want Mom in the hospital in North Carolina where
they lived. Some time after my birth, we all returned to Camden, NC. In the
spring of 1944, Dad was transferred to San Diego, so the rest of the family
spent the summer at the Sloat Camp on Lake Waccabuc. Mom spoke fondly over the
years of her memory of that summer. In August of 1944 Mom and Martha and Rob
boarded a train to California and met Dad (in Fairfield), where the family
lived during the remainder of World War II. John was born during this time.
We followed Dad to Houston in February 1948 after he had obtained a job with
the fledgling Trans Texas Airways. We first lived in a rented house on Fauna
Street in the Garden Villas subdivision. Then in May 1948 we moved into the
house Dad bought at 214 Ipswich in the Allen Farms subdivision. This was one
mile south of Garden Villas across Telephone Road from the Houston Airport.
Bruce was born at this time. I remember many years of fun with my siblings
and friends playing in the fields surrounding Allen Farms; building hay huts,
throwing gourds and picking blackberries. I attended Garden Villas Elementary
School and in the fifth grade was sent with siblings to Mt. Olive Lutheran
School. In 1957 we moved to Garden Villas, to 139 Santa Fe. Dad had bought a
white house, which was built in about 1940, located on a 7/8th acre lot. Here
the kids had more room to play. I remember years of backyard football,
baseball, golf, high-jumping, tree climbing, model air planes, stamp
collecting, tropical fish, fighting, bicycle riding, girls, etc., etc. When I
was going into the eight grade, the parents returned the kids to public
schools. I went to Hartman Junior High, then Jesse H. Jones High School, where
I graduated in 1962. In high school I especially enjoyed my agriculture
studies and being a member of Future Farmers of America. I raised rabbits,
chickens, and honey bees and showed fryer rabbits in the Houston Livestock Show
and Rodeo in 1961 and 1962. I then went to the University of Houston, living
at home, and graduated in 1967 (B.S. - Microbiology). During my college years
I worked in many capacities part-time at Rainbo Bakery. On June 16, 1967
Elisabeth Ann Smith and I were married at the Southpark Baptist Church, then on
August 24, 1967 I went into the U.S. Air Force, reporting to Lackland AFB in
San Antonio. I spent 3 months at Officers Training School and was commissioned
Second Lieutenant. I spent ten months in Biloxi, MS training as a
Communications Officer. I then spent two years in Key West, FL at the 6947th
Security Squadron (electronic intelligence aimed at Cuba) located on Cudjoe Key.
Lisa was born in Key West. I then spent thirteen months unaccompanied at Osan
AFB in Korea at the 6903rd Security Squadron (aimed at North Korea and China).
After the Air Force in 1971 I returned to Houston and went to work as an
investigator for the Harris County Pollution Control Department. I enjoyed the
work and learned the business. David was born during this time in Houston. I
attended the University of Houston at night, taking full advantage of the
educational benefits of the G.I. Bill, and obtained my masters degree in
Environmental Engineering in 1979. In October 1992 I was appointed Director of
the Pollution Control Department by the Harris County Commissioners Court, the
position I presently hold. My hobbies are computer related genealogy, high
school reunion activities, birding, stamp collecting and fishing.

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Note: !John David Barrett was educated in Houston Public Schools and graduated from
Tulane University in New Orleans with a degree in French and Drama (B.A. 1968).
He had a Navy scholarship to Tulane. He was a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy
1968-1973. He was stationed in Pensacola, FL, San Diego, CA
and aboard the USS.....................................he flew A6..........
He attended the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas 1974-1977 and did his
Dental Internship at Portland, Oregon 1977-1978. He then set up his dental
practice in Port Hadlock across the road from his brother Bruce. Besides his
dental practice, his was president of the Washington State Dental Association
(19??-19??), etc. He enjoyed many hobbies including model airplanes,
woodworking, soccer, and especially fly fishing. He tied his own flies and was
very successful with his designs. He maintained his pilot's license and owned
several small aircraft which he used extensively for business, family purposes,
and for recreation. (RSB 5/24/93)
Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family Reunion held August 11,
1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
I hit the ground in Vacaville, CA on October 1, 1945 shortly after the
atomic bomb forever changed events in Hiroshima. While this later event never
gained the notoriety of that earlier cataclysm in Japan, those closest to the
epicenter in that California hospital are still feeling the aftershocks. My
family moved to Houston, TX while I was still a toddler and the remainder of my
childhood years were spent there. Graduated HS in 1964. BA from Tulane in New
Orleans in 1968. On to Pensacola and Navy flight school - Naval aviator -
fighter jock. Resigned commission in 1973 and back to Houston for a year at U
of Houston. Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, TX - DDS degree in 1977.
Portland, OR next for a General Practice residency. 1978 moved to Hadlock, WA
- been practicing here since. Restored a Victorian home across the street from
Bruce and Debbie's church for my office - originally built in 1887.
On board of directors of Washington Dental Service, non-profit dentist
owned dental insurance company in Seattle. Chairman of Board in 1986 & 1987.
President of WSDA Services, Inc., a for profit subsidiary of the state dental
association that I helped start about 4 years ago. On board of directors of
NORDIC, a dental malpractice insurance company formed last year by the dental
association in conjunction with the state physician's association. Charter
member of local Rotary Club.
Live on Old Oak Bay Road in a house built in the 1940's with split fir logs
about two feet in diameter by a Yugoslav who was about 5'5" tall - signifiant
because many details were designed with short people in mind. Hobbies and
interests include reading, backpacking, snow skiing, fly fishing, windsurfing,
cabinet making, and flying, as well as piano & guitar playing. We have two
dogs - a boxer & a black lab mix; both are intimidated by our three cats.
.
Children - Whitney Jean Sep 20, 1974
Meredith Jun 4, 1980
Step sons (Burns)
Edward Adam (Adam) Aug 10, 1974
Charles Patrick (Charlie) Oct 17, 1975
Timothy Carl (Tim) Apr 24, 1979
Married Anne Little Burns on Jun 19, 1988 in Houston, TX. Anne & I have
been friends since Jr. Hi but lost touch for about 15 years. A few years ago
we were reintroduced by a mutual friend and we dated back & forth between
Houston & Hadlock for a year or two before marrying.

John David Barrett
P.O.Box 428
Port Hadlock, WA 98339
(206)437-2137

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Note: !Anne Lee Little autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family
Reunion held August 11, 1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
On June 15, 1948 my mother, Doris put the finishing touches on my sisters'
dance costumes. So, early in the morning June 16th, I bounced into the world.
DeQuincy, Louisiana was not blessed with a very large medical staff, so my
father, Harold Little, was there to catch me as I made my debut. We moved to
Houston, Texas after a few years and when I was six, my brother Ed was born and
thirteen when Jill came along. My childhood seemed to be one long summer full
of picnics and vacations and reading books in trees. We lived in a community
called Garden Villas, and the church that seemed to be the center of our social
lives, Garden Villas Methodist. At 12, I met the Barrett Family. They sang in
the choir and played instruments and raised bees and caned chairs. They lived
in a house with area rugs and a green door and had a cute son named John. We
began our friendship that has never ended, in spite of many years without
contact and other lives.
After college, I married, taught school and had three sons, Adam, Charlie
and Tim. They have kept me on my toes since they were born and brought many
laughs into my life. In 1981 I became a single parent and many new challenges
began. We shared our struggles and tears, but also our new interests. I
became involved in American Sign Language and we all became exposed to the deaf
culture. Then I began facilitating groups for divorced and widowed people. A
special group of "crazies" came into our lives - the other facilitators!! Then
graduate school, in counseling, began to take most of my time and victims of
abuse, in particular. Soccer, football, baseball and rock music began to be
an important part of our lives. Our friends were like extended family, and our
family get-togethers were often.
John and I began a long distance correspondence that renewed our friendship
and eventually grew into more. Luckily, I now am blessed with two wonderful
step daughters, Whitney & Meredith. At our wedding, June 19, 1988, we were
surrounded by friends and family that had known us when we were in M.Y.F.
together (Methodist Youth Fellowship). That was an event that brought us, The
Burns, to the Northwest.
My personal goals are to live to 100, visit Africa and Wales and see each
of our children become an adult, navigating the world.

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Note: !Meredith Barrett was born at 6:30 am.
Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family Reunion held August 11,
1990 at Port Hadlock, WA:
Hi my name is Meredith Barrett. I am 10 years old. I live in Oak Bay,
Washington. I also live in Mercer Is, Wa. My dad lives in Oak Bay and my mom
lives on Mercer Is. My school is West Mercer. I was born in Port Townsend Wa.
It's about 15 min. away from Pt. Townsend. My Birthday is June 4th '80. My
Hobbies are Swimming, skating, playing piano, playing w/ animals & reading.
By Meredith Barrett

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Note: Bruce Edward Barrett
P.O. Box 82
Port Hadlock, WA 98329
(206)385-0759

!Bruce Edward Barrett was educated in Houston Public Schools. He then moved to
Sequim and lived at his parents' farmhouse and property. He attended Peninsula
Junior College in Pt. Angeles and obtained an Associate Degree in Forestry. He
worked for the U.S. Forest Service, stationed in Quilcene, WA, and managed
timber harvesting and operated road building and maintenance equipment, in the
Olympic National Forest. He was dispatched to forest fires, even to some
out-of-state. He and Debbie lived first in a Forest Service trailer in
Quilcene, then in 1972 moved into an old church they purchased in Port Hadlock.
With a huge amount of dedication and effort, they converted the 1906 church
into a beautiful home. They raised their family there. In about 1979 they
bought 5 acres of property in the woods two miles south of Chimacum and began
construction on another house for retirement. Hadlock was getting too
crowded and citified for Bruce. Bruce and Debbie were very active in soccer,
both playing and coaching with the kids. Bruce loved woodworking and built
a beautiful 25 foot sailboat called "Harmony" which was taken for a month
each summer for many years to the Strait of Georgia off Vancouver Island.
Bruce also engaged in hobby building and flying remote control gliders.
(RSB 5/24/93)

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Note: Heidi Corson
781 Route 22-232
Dauphin, PA 17018
(717)921-2973

!Adelaide Emma Barrett "Heidi" was educated at Katonah High School (1937), Emma
Willard School (1938), Troy, NY, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, and Yale
School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. She was a Visiting Nurse. She married
Geoffrey Corson at her father's home at 180 Valley Road in Katonah. They
resided in Baltimore, MD, at 534 Curtin Street, Harrisburg, PA and Route 1,
Dauphin, PA.
Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family Reunion held August 11,
1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
I was born Adelaide Emma Barrett June 24, 1920, in Yonkers, NY. At the age
of six weeks, we moved back to Katonah, where I spent all my childhood and
youth. My earliest memories were of the little yellow house on Cottage Place,
where we lived before building the family home Hillcote on Valley Road in 1926.
In the fall of 1937, after graduation from Katonah High School, I went away
to Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. for a post graduation year of study in
preparation for college. This was followed by four very happy years at
Middlebury College in Vermont.
After graduation from Midd in 1942, I went for six months to work with the
Seeing Eye in Morristown, N.J. When it became evident they didn't intend to
use the women as instructors for the blind, I left and started a job as
secretary to the assistant director of admissions at Middlebury. I had been
there only a week when Mother suffered a severe stroke, and I came home to help
Dad, who was still employed at AT&T in New York City. With Larry and Bob of
necessity far away in war related situations, it seemed wisest for me to help
out on the home front. We had a couple of fun years as I kept house for Dad,
we inherited the Katonah Record and worked on that as it grew rapidly to be
quite a prize-winning little newspaper. In August of 1944 Dad married Frances
Weber with all our blessings, and I was free to begin to pursue other
interests. I went in the fall of 1945 to start a two and a half year course at
the Yale School of Nursing, graduating in April of 1948 with a Master of
Nursing degree and an RN.
I enjoyed especially the public health affiliation in nursing, and went
directly to work as a staff nurse in the West Haven branch of the New Haven
Visiting Nurse Association. A year and a half later I took a position as the
one nurse in the Newtown Conn. VNA, a job I held for a year.
At New Haven I had met divinity students, and one couple, Jack and Bobbie
Heinrich, introduced me to her brother, Geoffrey in June of 1950. We met, we
corresponded, we saw each other several times, in December we were engaged, and
in June, on the third, after he had finished his first year of medical school,
we were married in a simple ceremony at Hillcote with a few family and friends.
We worked the summer at Newtown and then moved to Philadelphia to spend the
next three years as he finished med school.
During these years I worked as an assistant supervisor with the Philadelphia
Visiting Nurse, taking time off when Alan was born in 1952 and Linda in 1954,
ten days before Geoff's graduation. Then there was one year of interning in
Baltimore, and then to Harrisburg for a Barb surgical residency. Here I was
able to devote my time to family.
Barb was born in 1956 and Megs in 1958 after we had moved to our present
home in Dauphin.
The thirty-three years since we moved to Highland have been full of
adventures which are continuing tales of our children. My nursing skills were
used in caring for older relatives and growing children, which with 4-H
projects and educational interest filled the days. Later, in the late 70s, I
returned to nursing part-time to help Geoff as his office nurse until his
retirement in 84 from his surgical practice.

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Note: !Geoffrey Alan Corson was educated at Avon Grove High School, PA, Pennsylvania
School Ship, Annapolis, Oberlin College, OH, and Hehnemann Medical School
(1954), Philadelphia, PA. He received his M.D. 1955 from the Maryland State
Board. He spent six years in the Merchant Marines, as Chief Engineer, in World
War II. His medical practice is in Harrisburg, PA.
Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family Reunion held August 11,
1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
I was born in Brazil in 1922, August 11, where my parents worked - Dad sold
plantation implements and mother worked in the American Embassy.
Finished high school in Chester County, (USA) in 1940 and entered the Penna
Nautical schoolship where I trained for two years in Marine Engineering.
During the Second World War I served as Engineering Officer aboard tankers,
troop carriers and supply ships in the North Atlantic, North and South Pacific
and Indian Oceans.
When the war was over I entered college and was graduated from the pre-medical
studies at Oberlin in 1950. Following my freshman year of medical school I
married Heidi Barrett, whom I met in New Haven, Ct. By the time I was
graduated from Medical School, we had two children, Alan and Linda.
Internship was in Baltimore, Md. In 1955 I commenced a 4 1/2 year Residency in
General Surgery in Harrisburg, Pa. where we have lived ever since. During the
residency two additional children came along - Barbara and Margaret. I
practiced General Surgery for the next 25 years retiring from surgery in 1984.
I worked as a Medical Officer for the Central Pennsylvania Division of the Post
Office for the next 5 years and retired completely in 1989.
Current interests are in boating, ham radio, clock repairing, wood working and
tinkering (mainly). Have just completed a beginners course in stained glass
working, with son Alan.

Note: Alan Barrett Corson
781 Route 322
Dauphin, PA 17018
(717)921-2973

!Alan Barrett Corson:
Autobiographical sketch prepared for the Barrett Family Reunion held August 11,
1990 at Port Hadlock, WA.:
I was born August 2, 1952 at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. We moved to
Baltimore when I was two. After one year, we moved from Baltimore to the city
of Harrisburg. In 1957, the family moved to Dauphin. I attended the local
public schools and graduated in 1971 from Central Dauphin East High School.
Following graduation I had a number of jobs ranging from working in the local
hospital as an orderly to working road construction. During the 1970s, I
attended Harrisburg Area Community College and graduated with a degree in
liberal studies. In 1985, I graduated from Penn. State University with a B.S.
in Elementary Education. Since graduation I have done a lot of substituting in
grades k-12 and also held several teaching positions; teaching third grade and
also Middle School level Chapter 1 Reading.
I do have a wide variety of interests. In the past I have enjoyed such
pastimes as skiing, woodcarving, taxidermy, nature study, scuba diving and
flying an ultra-light. Some of the hobbies and pastimes I am currently
involved in include genealogical research, summer vacations in Maine, stained
glass and cooking with my home-made solar box cooker.

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