Carolyn Roberts:  

Life Inspired by the idea of a possible 50 year class reunion (just got the email from Classmates.com) I thought I'd dash off a bio! Some of you may remember that I was married during our senior year (1956) skipped graduation and took off for San Diego with my parents. Married Roy Roberts in Seattle and he left for 18 months in Korea. On his return he started college and I worked. Soon 3 babies came along, Roy finished college and it was MY TURN!(Roy Shared all the homemaking/babysitting duties.) I Graduated from San Diego State with an undergraduate degree in Microbiology/pre-med. Did a one-year internship as a medical lab technologist, but hated the routine of it. Picked up a pilot's license around age 30 and put in about 320 hours in a little fabric covered piper cub airplane. Had to spin the propeller to start it. Could fly it with the doors open and it did beautiful corkscrew spins from high in the sky to earthward! Was never good at landings though and the skies got too complicated for me with all the control zones. Never made it to Med.School but became involved in medical school mgmt. and obtained an MBA from San Diego State at the ripe old age of 43. Managed medical school departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Univ. Of Ca. San Diego, Medicine at University of Ca. San Francisco and Medicine at U. of Utah. Big departments, the last one having a 90 million dollar annual budget. (remember our shorthand and accounting teachers? ) The shorthand fell by the wayside, but that accounting became pretty important! Retired from the University and didn't know how to deal with that, so For the last 4 years I've been a full-time broker...Expand for more