Caroline Bielinski:  

rs and in general learned a great deal. This was the era of the two line phone board as in Saturday Night Live and ticker tape. I was a single mother all this time and enjoyed coaching soccer, being assistant cubmaster and boyscout commissioner, then later Asst. Scoutmaster after training. Then I remarried and moved to Thousand Oaks where I became an engineering secretary to 5 managers and 18 engineers. This was all prior to the age of computer, we were totally dependent on IBM selectrics with engineering fonts, overhead viewers and cells, and IBM Executive typewriters. After having my additional four children I never really stopped working as we did many volunteer activities. With girls, I helped run the Brownies & Girl Scouts, started up a Scottish Country Dance troupe for children, a pet therapy program at a local convalarium, hosted many exchange students from different parts of the world, and as a homeschooling Mum facilitated many educational field trips and outings for our large home school group (over 100), for eight years). We bred rabbits and parakeets and always kept a large assortment of pets on hand. (still do). Twenty-two years of homeschooling completed, wonderful talented children. I hope to take more college classes for special needs. The past three years have been physically challenging as I battled stage three cancer and am now clear. The treatment made hip replacement a necessity and now I am feeling wonderful and a tad bionic.