Carol Smucker:
CLASS OF 1963
Elgin High SchoolClass of 1963
Elgin, IL
Wheaton Community High SchoolClass of 1963
Wheaton, IL
Carol's Story
Graduated from Wheaton Community HIgh School, Wheaton, Illinois in 1963.
Received nursing diploma in 1966 from West Suburban School of Nursing, Oak Park, Illinois. Took classes at University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana one year, re-meeting a Wheaton classmate, David Smucker, and marrying him June 1967. Worked as an RN at Carle Hospital until David graduated (Mechanical Engineering) in 1968. Moved to Pittsburgh area where David started work with ALCOA. I worked in local hospital and had three children while there. We raised our family in Davenport, Iowa. Lived in Swansea, Wales 1980-81. Back to Davenport. Last corporate stop was Knoxville, TN. David and I retired in 2000. Along the way I got a BSN, MA, and PhD in Nursing. Taught nursing, was a Parish Nurse...Expand for more
, and ended my career in Knoxville by starting a Parish Nurse Program and managing it for 6 years. In retirement I've written two nursing books (Nursing the Spirit and Faith Community Nursing). We have four grandchildren. Our children live in Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Canada. I am the piano accompanist for our church choir and play for the local theater musicals. We're very active in our Episcopal church. David teaches blacksmithing at our local John C. Campbell Folk School and I take classes there. We also enjoy local Elderhostel classes and traveling to see family and overseas. We built a timber frame house in the mountains of western North Carolina and have lived in Brasstown for 8 years. Brasstown is famous for its annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop.
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