| Elizabeth (Niles) Clark |
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| Last Update:
29 Sep 2005 |
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Spouse: |
Bettty Ed |
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Address |
Dalton, MA |
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| Note | 9/18/05 - Bill Bailey reports Betty and Ed are traveling to Los Vegas to visit their two sons during the reunion. | ||||||||
| Bio | 29 Sep 2005 At the time of our retirement we were still living in Chesterfield. Right after our marriage (1957) Ed completed an engineering degree in Indiana where we lived for the first three years of our marriage. Ed's first job was as a field engineer for Sperry Rand. We lived in Portsmouth, NH; Mineola,Long Island and New London, CT where Our son Bill was born in 1961. We bought our 1850 vintage farm house with 100 acres (more or less as the deed read) in 1961. Joe was born there in 1965. We raised pigs, turkeys,steers, rabbits, vegetables and flowers--all very high maintenace. I worked in nearby Williamsburg for years and Ed switched his profession to teaching. First as a math teacher at Pittsfield HS and then as a teacher of calculus, physics and electronics at Berkshire Community College. I continued working as an instructional aide until the boys were old enough and I finally had time to finish my degree in the Ada Comstock program at Smith and then an M.ed as a teaching fellow in the education dept. at Smith. I had a wonderful ten years of teaching second grade. Ed and I were very fortunate to have had wonderful travels and great friendships. We relocated to our present home in Dalton in 1998.During this period we've been dealing with some major illness but life is still rich and good and we count our blessings. Our sons both live and work in Las Vegas Bill as a systems engineer at the Mirage and Joe in the theater department at the new Wynn. In the early '90's they purchased and are constantly renovating a collection of five small houses where they live and rent. The neighborhood is somewhat dangerous and requires a high fence and some big (fierce-looking but really gentle) dogs. I made travel plans way back in the spring to visit them in October of this year--my first travel since a very major surgery in 2003. I'm very sorry to miss this important reunion and to catch up with everyone. Thank you David for making it possible to do that via computer. But I plan on staying cancer free and seeing everyone in 2010. |
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