He is well paid that is well satisfied. -- Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

At 10 years old she was running all over the woods pretending to be Emma Peel to Doug Ricky's John Steed, rescuing baby birds from various critters and windows, swimming in lakes and although too old to portray Little Bell in the melodrama, she continued performing by dancing the opening "Can-Can".

In her teens her family moved to the Southeastern Rain Forest island of Sitka, Alaska. There she became active in high school and community theatre, the Young Republicans (don't hold in against her), became an American Red Cross Certified Lifeguard and swimming instructor, studied for a summer in Nice, France and in her senior year at Sitka High School became one of the first women volunteers with the Sitka Fire Department. She then promptly broke her ankle on her first "call" and blew up the family car.

By her 20s she had become a world traveler, worked for several years in Washington, DC for Senator Steven's, studied theatre for a year at SOSC in Ashland, Oregon while working on the R-Ranch (where she is now a part owner), received her AA in Theatre from the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts and worked professionally for the now defunct Alaska Repertory Theatre in Anchorage, Alaska. There she found professional theatre to be profoundly different than community theatre and decided to change careers. She worked as a Bull Cook out in logging camps, in the Hotel Restaurant Business on several different levels and changed careers yet again to work in the field of Early Childhood as the Cook/Nutritionist and eventually as the Assistant Director. She began working on her Early Childhood Degree with the University of Alaska and it was there she was first introduced to the brand new Super Computer. Her volunteer work with the American Red Cross continued and she become an Instructor for several BLS classes as well as a First Aid Station Team Leader. At 29 she returned to Sitka and the Sheldon Jackson College to pursue her teaching degree. There she met her soon to be husband David in a Computer Programming class. This was her first experience with an Open Entry-Self Teaching system and thus began her love of computers and Distance and Virtual teaching, not to mention the cute ex-Marine in front of her.

In her thirties she received her BA degree in Education, continued in theatre as the Director of Community Youth Theatre, and married her husband in a Medieval Ceremony (he proposed while they were both acting in The Taming of The Shrew). She worked in the Early Childhood Field as the Director of Head Start and continued her volunteer work with the American Red Cross as an instructor. With her husband she began volunteering with the Alaska Raptor Rehabilitation Center as an Owl and Eagle Handler. Eventually her volunteer work with The Center led her to take the job as the Education Program Director and the world wide demand for Raptor Education kept her pursuit of computers, BBS systems and Networked computers in the learning forefront.

12 years later Elaine and David can still be found on the island of Sitka. David works on the Search and Rescue team and for the Harrington Centennial Hall. This fall Elaine directed the Alaska Day Melodrama The Saloonkeeper's Daughter. This spring she will be the Technical Director/Workshop Coordinator for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for the Sitka Baranof Theatre Guild. She works for the University of Alaska-Sitka Campus as Computer Faculty teaching several Distance Delivery - Flex classes via the Virtual Classroom located on her web site: Shui Long's Cavern. She also owns and runs the Perfect Ten Salon. She continues to teach Basic Life Support classes for SEARHC Hospital and American Red Cross classes for the Community Schools program, where her personal experience with everything from food poisoning in a Yurta in Ashkabad to performing CPR while traveling on a jet, make for dramatic classes.

Where ever there is Shakespeare, Chocolate and Coffee, or the newest innovations in Cyberspace, Elaine can be found. Her eyes are hazel, her hair color changes with the seasons, her nails are always long, she continues work on a 20 year Master Tattoo, and the rest is subject to change without notice.

SLC