barbara kortes:
CLASS OF 1970
Dearborn High SchoolClass of 1970
Dearborn, MI
purdue universClass of 1976
West lafayette, IN
Edison Junior High SchoolClass of 1967
Dearborn, MI
barbara's Story
Since I have been asked to post a story I will try to do so in less than a bazillion words. After HS went to Purdue got engineering degree worked in oil and chemical industry got to be 3rd highest level woman in Chevron ran several manufacturing facilities (been shot at, under armed gard for death threats etc) got lucky accepted as one of 25 Americans to be Sloan fellow at Stanford where I got my exec MBA then went on to run division for Safeway and ended up running large global division at the famous Enron left there in late 2003 when my husband of 20 years got sick and at age 50 died of heart attack I then spent 12 hrs per day for 365 days going to school to earn a BS in nursing I am currently a nurse in hospital and plan to buy a large nursing home or a few small ones but this takes millions of dollars and two more years of training and university classes. Although my home is in San Fran bay area , I also hav...Expand for more
e recently bought a beachfront home on Lake Michigan in Charlevoix, where I go every other month for a week. I have traveled to 165 countries around the world many several times and even been to Timbuktu. I like 10th world countries a lot. Lastly, I spent a year in the hospital battling cancer 1987-1988 of which I spent 6 months in a plastic bag in 88 because I was dying I volunteered to be an experiment so I am one of the first people to survive a bone marrow transplant in 1988 only 3% of us lived my doctor got the noble prize for medicine for inventing bone marrow transplant. For 20+ years since then I have been exceptionally well. I love to scuba dive in indo pacific, occasionally ski, avid travel with 2-4 trips per year and hike the Himalayas. That's me in nutshell work hard play hard and laugh lots.
UPDATE: sold California home building home in mountains of park city Utah (USA winter Olympic team lives here)
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