Elizabeth Barratt:  

Well here is a capsule of where I've been & what I've done! HAS IT REALLY BEEN NEARLY 50 YEARS? After graduation, I left Gilroy and moved to Pacific Grove where I lived for a year and also enrolled at Monterey Peninsula College. In September 1962 I met and married an Army officer who was taking the Persian language at the Presidio of Monterey. We spent 20 years living and traveling in many parts of the US and the world. We lived overseas in Okinawa and were able to tour part of Asia, spent 2 tours in Iran and from there were able to travel around that country and also spent some time in Lebanon. Spent 6 years in the greater Washington DC area. During those Army years I was able to complete my BA in Spanish at Ripon College in WI with minors in French and History, and later on did my MA in Spanish Literature at George Mason U. in VA. Came back to CA in 1978 after being evacuated from Iran during our second tour there due to the Khomeini riots. Lost everything we owned, had to leave it all there and run, and our marriage ended as well. I stayed on in Salinas with my son and daughter. I was a bilingual teacher in the Migrant Ed program for a few years but I grew tired of the politics involved and decided to move on. In 1987 I remarried and Dick and I moved to Carmel Valley, where we still own our home, we blended families, his daughter is only 6 mos. older than mine, and all worked out very nicely, family-wise. I spent the better part of a decade as an educational test writer and evaluator for CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey. Together Dick and I have owned our own dinner theater in Carmel (1983-1987), operated a Bed and Breakfast in Gilroy (1995-2005) in my gr...Expand for more