• Antique Secretary

    secretaryI was offered a part-time job in the school office in the early sixties during my senior year of high school. This job was being a secretary to the Superintendent of Schools.  Then when I graduated I was offered this same job full-time.

  • Unexpected Mentor

    mentorHaving worked in a law office for 56 years one would hope that I learned a lot.  Actually, I worked for my current boss’s dad for twenty-three of those 56 years and learned an awful lot.  Bruce was his name and he loved to teach.  This was fortunate for me as I came to the office without a college degree, having just graduated from high school.  I was the only secretary he had for a long time and while training me he was very good at teaching me why things had to be done a certain way and then how to accomplish this.   He also gave me free rein once I had certain projects down pat.  

  • More Than a Secretary

    careerWould you believe that while growing up I wanted to be a housewife and mother? I lived in a wonderful place with a group of stay-at-home moms and housewives.  They made this sound like such a fulfilling, relaxing, and happy life.  This was in the fifties and women that I knew didn’t work out of the home.  We lived in an Ozzie and Harriet atmosphere.