Elizabeth Sheppard:
CLASS OF 1961
Birdville High SchoolClass of 1961
North richland hills, TX
Elizabeth's Story
Life
I presently work for Bowne of Dallas, a very large financial printing company. I am a proofreader on the midnight to 8 a.m. shift. Prior to this, I worked for The Wall Street Journal in Dallas for about 16 years, doing typesetting and page make-up. In June 1998, we were laid off when the Journal closed their composing operation in Dallas.
My first two jobs after college were teaching eight years in elementary schools (three of those in BISD) and working 10 years as a reservationist for Braniff Airlines, until it went bankrupt.
My husband Garland worked in the printing industry for many years (10 of those at the Dallas Times Herald), but now t...Expand for more
eaches math at North Side High School in Fort Worth ISD.
Our 24-year-old son Gary and his wife Shannon have a 2-year-old son named Ian (and he is really cute and smart!). Gary works part-time in the circulation dept. at the Wall Street Journal and also goes to Tarrant County College part-time.
Politics, government and labor unions have been interests of mine. Every now and then, I write a letter to the editor about those areas (and, surprisingly, most have gotten published).
I look forward to each and every reunion that we have. I wish more of our classmates would write short biographies for us to read. They would be quite interesting I'm sure.
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