Lillian has some news she would like to share:<\/p>\n
After graduating with a teachers\u2019 certificate I moved to Palatine.\u00a0 Then it was a way-out suburb of Chicago where I taught speech for a year.\u00a0\u00a0During that year I reconnected with a boyfriend from my summers in Maine working as a camp counselor.\u00a0 The rest is history as they say; we were married December of \u201966 and still are.<\/p>\n
He taught middle school (then junior high) in a private school outside Boston.\u00a0 They graciously gave me a job as librarian assistant and teaching one or two classes.\u00a0 I fell in love with the uniqueness of the middle schoolers, especially boys.\u00a0 This was a good thing since that became my career!<\/p>\n
From Fessenden School, in Boston area we moved to Eaglebrook School in Deerfield MA where we spent 27 great years, working in a dorm, keeping the library functioning, getting a Masters in Education.\u00a0 Bill taught math, and coached all three seasons.\u00a0 In the summers we spent many years working at the camp Bill attended as a boy.\u00a0 It was a good life and there we raised our two children.\u00a0 Louise was born in Boston and moved to Deerfield at age two, and Alan was born in Deerfield.<\/p>\n
When Bill, a Chattanoogan, golfer and 6 years my senior, wanted to retire we moved to Wilmington, North Carolina.\u00a0 We have no family here, but have great weather, golf pretty much year round, and lots to do.\u00a0 I was lucky and got a position in the library at Cape Fear Academy here.\u00a0 It was a wonderful job, terrific folks as colleagues and I got to have library classes for the lower school.\u00a0 The last step of my career in education gave me an opportunity to work with three age groups, elementary, middle and high school.\u00a0 I had the most connection with the little ones but saw and got to know all three divisions.\u00a0 I was there for 16 years and retired in June 2012.<\/p>\n
Bill still enjoys golf, and I am enjoying all the things around town that I said I would do when I retired.\u00a0 Church activities keep me connected with the kids, and Cape Fear River Watch connects me to the environment.\u00a0 I also became involved with AAUW ( American Association of University Women) that had a branch here.\u00a0 I worked with many terrific women across the state at the state level of AAUW and have attended several of the National Conventions.\u00a0 Since we continued our summer work at the boys\u2019 camp and have a cabin in Maine we get our \u201cNew England\u201d fix in the summers. And the children come to Maine as well.<\/p>\n
Our children now have children.\u00a0 We have 4 granddaughters, two are Louise\u2019s and we visit them in Putney VT and two we see in DC with Alan.\u00a0 They range in age from 10 to under a year, if you read this before May 2015.<\/p>\n
I see Susan Hodge Hoover at AAUW National Conventions and a few other Kappa Delta\u2019s on Facebook.\u00a0 I would love to connect with some more folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lillian has some news she would like to share: After graduating with a teachers\u2019 certificate I moved to Palatine.\u00a0 Then it was a way-out suburb of Chicago where I taught speech for a year.\u00a0\u00a0During that year I reconnected with a … Continue reading