I was born in a suburb of Chicago, Oak Park but moved to St. Paul shortly afterwards. My dad was an aeronatical engineer who was really ahead of his time in his ideas and creations.  I'll post his story one day, thanks to the forthought of my mother who wrote down his story.

Mother, "Lal", was the daughter of an artist who struggled through the depression trying to make a living with oil painting and an art school.  Mom never earned a degree from an institution of higher learning - she went to the school of experience and reading.  She always said that she was going to grow up with her children and enjoyed learning along with them.

There were six of us, I'm the eldest.  Four of my siblings were born in Connecticut (Dad worked for Vought/Sikorsky) and we left just after the war.  Chance Vought moved the company, the employees, and their families to Texas.  We settled in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas.

After graduating from Sunset High School, I went on to Texas Woman's University (still TSCW when I enrolled).  My major was library science and I took a position in a junior high school in west Texas.  The town was Big Spring - and happened to be the home of Webb Air Force Base.  That led to my meeting, falling in love, and marrying Dan, an airman stationed at the base.

Our children came quickly - five in three and a half years.  Many think that being military the family would have done a lot of traveling.  Well, the children and I spent eight years in Big Spring before moving to North Carolina, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.  Now, Dan made it to Turkey, Korea, Alaska, and Mississippi, but the family was left behind.

Currently, I am an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Library Studies and Educational Technology in the School of Education at East Carolina University, located just down the road - 40 miles - in Greenville, NC.  I teach interesting courses, including integrating technology in teaching and using the Internet for delivering instruction.

We attend New Hope United Methodist Church where I hold various positions, including treasurer.  When I'm not creating a new course or redesigning my current courses, I do find time to read and to enjoy our grandchildren. My interest in genealogy dates way back and it has taken many years to gather all my data.  I was especially fortunate to locate a great uncle living in Seattle who had information written in 1888 about my mother's family. On Dan's side of the family, there have been several historians including the McFaddens and Fishers.  Recently we discovered the Castor Association which published a book about the Kuester Family.

It has been said that one's brain continues to function as long as one continues to learn.  Well, at least my brain will live for a long time. I enjoy learning new ways of doing things and about other people.