Karen has shared some information about her life after graduating from Illinois Wesleyan:

“After graduation, I taught elementary school in Woodstock. Illinois before returning to college to get a master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois. While there I met and married my husband, Bob Snyder. While he finished graduate school, I taught in Rantoul, Illinois.

After his graduation, we moved to the Chicago area where he worked for Argonne National Laboratory an then Amoco Oil and Chemical Company. We eventually located in Naperville Illinois where we still live. While our three children were growing up, I worked for the local school district in special education classes, which I continued when they left home until a year and a half ago when Bob also retired.

For the last fifteen to twenty years we have spent many of our vacations touring on our tandem bike. We have visited the west coast, many of the midwestern states, the Canadian Rockies, Nova Scotia, and the Erie Canal in New York State. Our longest trip being a six week, 2,000 mile trip from the Pacific Ocean through Glacier National Park to Naperville.

Now we are both retired and enjoying our children and grandchildren, and we continue to bike.”