Della Franklin:  

I left Draper to attend Nortre Dame High School in my sophomore & junior years. In 1963, my family moved to Huntsville, Alabama, where my dad worked for GE in the space industry. I graduated from Huntsville High School in June 1964. That fall I started college at The University of North Alabama (a liberal arts college.) After 1 year I dropped out not caring for liberal arts. I went to work at Huntsville Hospital working for the Assistant Director of Nursing who encouraged me to go into the medical profession. I decided to go to x-ray school. I moved to Birmingham and attended Carraway Methodist Medical Center's x-ray school. I completed the school and began working as a Registered X-ray Technologist in 1973. While in x-ray school, I met my future husband, Allen Franklin, who had just come home from Vietnam. He was a friend of one of my classmates. We married the weekend after I graduated. I worked as an X-ray Tech for a couple of years & then decided to move on to something new. I took a job teaching girls to be medical secretaries in a technical school. I worked there for 10 years during which time we had our only child, Christopher. After 10 years & with a newborn, I was pretty burned out so I moved on again. I had been "bitten" by the computer bug at the technical school, so my next job was for a company that sold word proce...Expand for more