Wendy Moran Biggs
It is fun for me to read these
autobiographies. so here is mine for those of you that might remember
me. I lived near Syosset and went
toWest Side Elementary School (is it still called that?) until 9th grade.I
commuted to Huntington to Junior High and then to RL Simpson.
I went to nursing school after high school and 3 years later married Robert
Biggs whom I had met on a blind date at Lehigh University, compliments of
Batty Holmes who graduated from RL Simpson High in 1957.My husband was working
on a PhD in marine geology at the University of Maryland so we moved to Solomons
Island, Maryland 1961.
About 9 years and two boys later we moved to Delaware where we both wentto
work at the University of Delaware. I became a College Health Nurse Practitioner
(from Brigham Young University, Provo Utah) and went on to eventually receive
a Masters of Science in Nursing at U of D in 1984. My nursing career gave
me many opportunities including: hospital nursing, outpatient public health
, tuberculosis nursing for the State of Maryland, rehabilitation nursing
for workers comp insurance claims, gerontology, and finally hospice nursing
where I ended my career (1998) as Director of Patient Care for the County
Hospice I organized in 1986.So full circle.
Bob and I are both retired now, and live in Chesapeake City Maryland on the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. We have 5 grand-kids, one of whom is graduating
from high school this coming weekend. We fish, crab, and garden when we are
not volunteering in our community . It has been a good life.
Addendum 10/14/02:
Just wanted to say how much fun it has been (and will continue
to be) hearing from so many really interesting and fun folks. Some of you
I knew, but my situation was that the Moran's lived on Stillwell Lane just
outside of Syosset. We had to leave school right after the last bell and catch
some old coach bus which took us the 1 hr. ride home. Can you imagine that
today? It couldn't be more than 15 miles or so.
After school my dream was to be a nurse and after one false start (I received
a scholarship to a Nursing school in New York City but my father didn't
think
a "proper girl" should go that far away from home so I didn't get
to go that year). I worked in Huntington Hospital however and soon went
to
Pilgrim State Hospital School of Nursing in Brentwood. It has since closed.
But a friend of mine from RLS HS class of '67) went to Lehigh University
in
Pa. and invited me up for a blind date. The rest is history, I married Robert
Biggs in 1960, marine geologist/oceanographer and we have lived on the water
ever since.42 years this past September. We have 5 grand-kids from 18yrs.
to 2 years from our two sons' families.
I sure do appreciate all of you folks who joined the service, how proud you
must be. More some other day. wmb.rabbit