Dyan Cantrell Luper:  

I joined here a while back but just wasn't ready to spend the time to really get involved. Too many memories..... If you remember me at all, you know that I married Mike Luper immediately after graduation. We lived in Comanche and both attended Tarleton. When Mike got his BA in 1973 we moved to Mineral Wells so he could teach and I finished at Tarleton. In summer 1974 we moved to Corpus Christi so I could do my medical technology internship. We stayed there for 32 years! Mike got his MA degree and I became supervisor of a clinical microbiology lab and then of multiple labs in the corporation. In late 2003, Mike had a bad heart attack and subsequent complications forced him to retire from teaching and coaching. He was already retirement-eligible but loved working, too. After almost 25 years,my job in the lab became too much management and too little time playing with the bugs (Okay - I'm strange that way!). When I saw a job in R&D for a global medical microbiology company, I applied - and got it. It meant moving to Baltimore, MD but I was up for the challenge so in mid-2006 Mike and I packed all our stuff in a 16-ft truck and moved 1721 miles! Mike was retire...Expand for more