After reading the bios so far, some bringing a laugh or a tear or a gee-whiz I humbly submit a synopsis of some of my life to date, Hope it doesn't bore you guys!

After high school graduation the plan was for me to go to college. So I attended and graduated from Queens College with a BA in Speech Education. Fortunately I was hired by the school district where I'd done my student teaching and spent four happy years in the Massapequa Public Schools.

I had married my high school sweetheart after my sophomore year of college and left teaching in 1964 to give birth to my oldest child, Mimi, now a mechanical engineer taking time off to raise three young children.
I therefore entered the ranks of happy homemakers for the next fifteen years and soon Mimi was joined by her brother Jonathan in 1967. He is a proud daddy of two girls and is a fourth generation Sheet Metal Worker in NYC local #28.

In 1966 we moved into a lovely little house that we built in Cold Spring Harbor. I still live there with my cairn terrier "Buster".

While raising my children I became active in my Synagogue, taking particular interest in Sisterhood and eventually became President in 1976. I continue to participate in Sisterhood to this date. I accompanied my husband on many trips around the the US, studied caligraphy, oriental cuisine, played bridge and tennis and developed skills in dressmaking and other needle crafts.

Sometime in the late seventies I began to feel unfulfilled, returned to CW Post College and obtained my Masters Degree in Speech Pathology in preparation to return to work in my chosen field. I eventually worked for the Long Island Developmental Center as a Speech Pathologist with a specialty in the area of the Developmentally Disabled.

During the past 12 years my marriage slowly disintegrated but my colleagues, fellow workers, friends, and family provided me with a great deal of love and support and we eventually divorced in 1997. I retired from what is now LIDDSO in 2001 and, joined by my wonderful friend Jerry, we have started to plan a retired life together. A townhouse in "The Greens" at the former LIDC property in Melville has a deposit from me. We look forward to an active Senior life style right in our own backyard near our grandkids. (ME 5 HE 7 and one more on the way,)
My days are filled with volunteer work, grandkids, reading, traveling, health maintenance, studying for a belated Bat-Mitzvah, investment club, and just enjoying each day and reaping the rewards of a full lifetime.

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