I left Tucson in the autumn of 1960 and spent two years in Turkey. My son, James, was born in Ankara in 1962. My daughter, Lana, was born in Mesa while we were stationed at Williams AFB.  I attended collage in Washington State,(where I reside to this day),and taught elementary special education for twelve years. I joined the USAFR in 1973 and was a crew member on a C141 Starlifter. From 1973 till 1980 I represented the Surgeon Generals Office evaluating crew conditions on missions all over the globe. In 1980 I left a twenty one year marriage and became the first female loadmaster in the Air Force. 1990 was taken up with Dessert Storm and the evacuation of US military from the Philippines after the eruption of Mt Pinatubo. I retired from the Air Force in 1993 after four wars and twenty years. Enough is enough! I began working for the USPS in 1985. I became a Postmaster in 1996 and retired this past year after twenty four years of teaching employees how to "go postal". I built an art studio on my property. I'm calling it Drinks and Doodles.  You bring the beverage and I can teach you how to paint a picture in two hours. Sounds like fun huh? Both my children are in their mid forties and I have yet to see any grandchildren.

(The music is a recording of a Short Cuts rehearsal in 1959.  The singers are Sandy Padillas, (class of 60),  Lana Pierce, (class of 59), and me.) 

Here is a recent photo of me and my sweetie Paul at Green Lake in Seattle.