Carol Cassetty:  

My Life Since High School After graduation I attended Glendale City College and then getting my AA from Pasadena City College. From there I went to Azusa Pacific University, graduating with a degree in History and Elementary Education in December of 1966. The summer before my senior year of college I married Don Cassetty, the love of my life and best friend. We had known each other for many years while attending the same church in Alhambra. One thing we had in common was that we were both elementary teachers, Don in Arcadia and me in Alhambra. I ended up teaching at Marguerita School, the same elementary I attended from sixth through eighth grade. Susan Glenny will remember Marguerita School. Our first daughter, Julie, was born in November of 1969. We had decided that summer that we wanted to move outside of Southern California, so we travelled the western states looking for the perfect place. In August of 1970 we packed up and moved to Eugene, Oregon, where we could both work on advanced degrees at the University of Oregon and enjoy the great outdoors in Oregon. We had become avid water skiers and wanted to do more downhill skiing. Don found a teaching job and I stayed home for the next few years being mom. Our family expanded in March of 1973 with the birth of Jennifer. The family was complete. Fortunately, the girls also had our love of sports and the outdoors. In 1978 encouraged by friends who had lived overseas, we started looking for teaching positions at an international school. We travelled that summer in Asia and were bit by the travel bug. July, 1979, found us moving to Singapore to teach at Singapore American School. What an exciting four years we spent on that island nation. Of course, we loved our teaching, but the ability to travel in Asia was a real plus. Every vacation found us travelling to a different country in Asia. We returned to Eugene in 1983, as Julie wanted to go to high school back in Eugene. We honored her desire and spent the next five years teaching and enjoying life with family and friends in Eugene. We knew within a couple of years that we wanted to return to overseas teaching, so when Julie graduated in 1988 we again started looking for positions. Once you are overseas you find that you have many contacts. Julie went off to college at UC San Diego and we headed to Kobe, Japan, and teaching at Canadian Academy. This was the beginning of twelve years immersed in the Japanese culture. I learned Japanese and Don studied the Japanese culture, bo...Expand for more