Darlene Hyler:  

Life So much water under the bridge since high school, and yet those high school memories are the ones that come back to me time after time. Since that time I have been married, had two kids --Ryan Wetherington Hyler (Buzz) and Katy Spring Hyler Spence--divorced and now remarried to Steve Hitte. I have one absolutely adorable and precocious granddaughter, Annabella Kathryn Spence (Bella). The Kathryn comes from my first name. My daughter wanted to name her after me, but no one in their right mind would name a child Darlene! I attended Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Az., then came home to finish at UNCA. I taught German/French at Asheville High (!) for 14 years and then went to work for Delta Airlines as a German speaker in the international inflight dept. In Feb. 2003, as a result of 9/11, I was furloughed. (that's aviation-speak for "laid-off"!) Afterward, I taught ESL for a year at Wake Tech in Raleigh. Then when my husband, Steve, transferred to Atlanta I went to work for Omni International Airlines, a private international charter airline whose technical support center is in Mainz, Germany, a city I know well from my Delta days. We now ...Expand for more