Ann Whittemore:
CLASS OF 1962
Bay High SchoolClass of 1962
Bay st. louis, MS
Slidell High SchoolClass of 1978
Slidell, LA
George Hurst Elementary SchoolClass of 1958
Hattiesburg, MS
Eaton Elementary SchoolClass of 1954
Hattiesburg, MS
F. B. Woodley Elementary School Class of 1951
Hattiesburg, MS
Ann's Story
Life
Graduations: 8th grade (George Hurst School on USM Campus), 1958; Bay High School, 1962. USM, 1966; Tulane U., 1973. Taught at Slidell (LA) H.S. - 1966-1973 & 1973-1978. Worked in music & theatre at Tulane -- Summers, 1967 - 1988 & full-time, 1978-1988. 1983, married TU prof. Robert Whittemore (Philosophy). He died in 1988. I taught speech & theatre full-time at Xavier U. in N.O., La. from 1994 to 2000 & part-time at Tulane from 1981 to 2001. I stopped teaching to take care of my mother. She taught 5th grade at North Bay when we lived in the Bay. My brother Giles was robbed and murdered in Jackson, MS. in 1994. He was an Ass't Attorney Gen. of MS. He had 3 kids: 2 are now 36 (b/g twins) and a boy who died in Dec. of 2001 at age 29. Giles III (Trey), the boy of the twins, is an attorney. My youngest brother, Tommy, has two daughters -- both married. The youngest is the mother of Tommy's only grandchild*, Cassie. The T. Bryants live in Virginia and all work in D.C. Tommy retired from the U.S. Army as JAG Lt. Col. He is now an attorney for AmeriCorps. [Thanks, AmeriCorps and NCCC for all your wonderful help after Katrina.] He is 4 years younger than I am. [Read his biography under Gulfport East High School, Class of 1967.] Giles was 14 mos. younger than I. His widow lives in Jackson, Ms. We miss Giles terribly. Giles' son, Giles III, is a lawyer in Jackson, MS.
I have been to Europe ten times. I have done a good bit of stage work but mostly have directed plays, especially musical theatre plays. I have no children but raised two beagles, Woof and Bon-Bon, to age 16 each. Now deceased. I now have a calico cat, named after brother Tommy [Kitty Tom]. I don't mind being my age; it's just that I don't know where the years have gone, and I still think of myself as 27. [I even felt 27 when I was 17!] I went back to Xavier U. in 2003 to do fund raising. Katrina put an end to that. However, I went back as a writer and manager of major gifts in Institutional Advancement. Now, I am a writer in the Office of Sponsored Programs and Resource Developmen...Expand for more
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Here is an update: I survived Hurricane Katrina. My mother and I spent 6 mos. in Ackerman, MS. My house in N.O. had from 1 1/2 inches to 8 1/2 inches of water. My mother's house (near the 17th St. Canal) had 12 feet of water. Mama died unexpectedly in June 2006. I am now back in my house after extensive renovations. Mama's house has been torn down. Haven't decided what to do about the lot. As stated above, I am working part-time at Xavier University again. This time, I am writing letters from the President and Sr. V. P., writing grant proposals, position papers on various topics, etc. My life has changed so much since my mother's death. I do have a new great niece who lives in Virginia. Cassie is precious. [See her pixs in my album.] I see her about once or twice a year. Just saw her in Jackson, Ms. (June, 08). I recently learned that my other niece* will be giving me another great somebody in April of 09. She and her husband have been married 12 years with no kids. I'm sooooo excited!
I enjoy my emails, especially from former students and friends and family members. What a wonderful thing -- the internet. I can remember the first speech I ever heard about this new thing that was coming. . . the internet. It was in one of my speech classes at Tulane U. I remember thinking: "Oh, yeah. This sounds like science fiction." And now here we all are. When I was in a little Mississippi town as a "refugee," the internet was my only real way to communicate with others and to find people I had "lost" due to Katrina.
Bay High School:
Did I imagine it or were those years at Bay St. Louis High School some of the greatest? Times there seemed so much simpler than they got to be later on. Our time in BSL was before Vietnam, before the Kennedy assasination, before national unrest. I remember the sign on Hwy. 90, welcoming people to the Bay. It said, "Bay St. Louis, home of 4,683 fine people and 3 or 4 knuckleheads!" I don't think I ever met the 3 or 4 knuckleheads. What more can be said?
Ars longa, vita breva
Ann Bryant Whittemore
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