Doreen (Dee) (Frisque) Dowd:  

Life Finally became a Member of Classmates again in hopes of hearing from some of you! Time flies and we are all getting old (that stinks)...but at the same time, wiser in the sense of knowing that friendships are precious and priceless. I have (by design and choice) absolutely no social media footprint...no smartphone (I still have a dumbphone I rarely use), no Facebook, no iPad, nor even texting ability. Email and the good ol' phone (landline to boot!) are the only way to reach me in person (or snail mail, of course, now that my info has been updated). I followed my heart into the medical field after graduation, working first at EK and then various specialty practices in physicians offices for many years; at the same time, I took college classes as I could and was fortunate to have many excellent teaching doctors help me along my road of self-education. I finally ended up doing home nursing care for terminal oncolology patients...which was the most rewarding thing I've ever done...until 2004 when I went on permanent disability because of back problems. I sure do miss that work and being "adopted" by so many families, as always seemed to happen. During all those working years, I managed to get married and have 2 children and 1 grandson; he lives far away in DC so don't play the usual "gramma" role. My son lives in Denver but unfortunately, chooses estrangement so we have no contact to speak of. My parents, whom many of you met back in the day, finally passed away in 2006 and 2008; Dad at 102 and Mum at 100. I had gotten so tired of people asking me, "Are your folks STILL alive?" that I finally began replying, "Yes, Heaven doesn't want them and Hell is afraid they'll take over!" My a...Expand for more