The High School and College years.            Please feel free to email me!

  I went to Hawaii in 1977.  I was 14.  It was a great time, but with dark undertones.  We did it as a last family trip before my mother passed away from Cancer in 1978 when I had just turned 15.

    I went to my first Charity Ball when I was 16.  It was something I had dreamed about for years.  My mother was very involved with Kings Daughters and I had helped since I was a child getting the decorations ready for the Ball, so I felt so adult to be able to finally get to go.

    I was lucky enough to be chosen one of 44 high school students out of 400 to travel to Europe in 1980 with the Iowa Youth Chorale.  I was (and still am) a high soprano, one of only three in the choir.  We were able to travel to many countries and sing a two hour concert every night in beautiful churches and cathedrals. It was a very memorable two weeks.

    Graduation day 1981.  What a wonderful time.  Lots of memories, both good and bad.  I graduated from Fort Madison Senior High.

    Here is my senior picture.  I weighed 165 pounds at that time, was 5' 10" and large boned like my father.