Jeanita Ives:  

Jeanita's attended Jefferson Grade School and Shawnee High School. She earned a Bachelor and Master degree in Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma Before moving on. She has 3 children born in 3 different states. Jeanita later attended The University of Arizona (Land Use Law) where she later served on the Pima County, Arizona Parks and Recreation board where several of her proposals were adopted. She was active in getting environmental progressives and the first women candidates elected to office. Jeanita and her husband, Jerome, moved to Grass Valley, CA, with their 3 children to be closer to her mom and her new husband. (Jeanita's dad had died when she was a senior at Shawnee in May, 1962).. They built their own house and homesteaded the land; They raised goats, fowl of all kinds, rabbits and English Sheepdogs. She earned her teaching credential in science and spent a year developing a science program for a K=7 School in Newcastle, CA. complete with several all school science trips and science fair. The children helped with establishing a nature trail in the nearby woods. The school won the Golden Bell Award for the best Science program for an elementary school in California. With the job completed and the teachers trained to teach science, she went on to teach in an inner city high school where she found herself teaching, not only biology, her major, but also, chemistry, physics. She later was science department chair and spent several years there. Summer times were spent running the herb farm and teaching classes to the people who came to buy herb plants and products hand made at the farm and view the formal gardens she and Jerome had designed. Always the adventurers, the Ives made another move to the Ozarks of Arkansas where they built another house. With to and ran a "ma and pa" business that was restaurant, grocery story, and gas station and specialized in selling Ozark crafts made by the loc...Expand for more