The year after our graduation from Tottenville H. S., class of ’58, I moved west to Colorado, falling in love with the Rocky Mountains!  For the next thirty-plus years, I lived in New Mexico or Colorado and was busy raising two children and attending the University of Albuquerque where I earned my degree in nursing.

While working at a Colorado Springs  hospital in the neuro-intensive and neuro rehab floors, I met Bob, a Canadian Air Force officer stationed at NORAD. Bob had started up a pipe band and was giving bagpipe lessons, which I promptly signed on for.  I’d always wanted to learn to play the pipes, undoubtedly due to my Scottish heritage and wonderful trips to Scotland.  Eventually, I joined the band and several years later, Bob and I were married and we both continue to play our pipes in a local band in Ottawa, Canada, where we have lived since 1991.

Working in various hospitals, I had a full and varied career and retired from nursing just a few years ago, ending my career at a family practice clinic. 

Another interest always maintained is a fondness for Spanish, thanks to Mr. Mattei.  I am in a Spanish group at our community center and have now taken up Tai Chi as well.

The children have successful careers and the grandkids, four of them, have been such fun to see growing up into great adults. The oldest grandson graduated last year from college and is teaching in Colorado, two other grandsons are in New Mexico State Univ., and the youngest, a granddaughter, just graduated from high school in Maine, (fifty years after her grandmother graduated from good old Tottenville High) and she will start at the Univ. of Maine this fall.