Jeanne (tte) McDonald:  

CLASS OF 1971
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Newbury park, CA

Jeanne (tte)'s Story

Well, let's see. After high school I went off to college in Colorado and ended up spending 10 years there. I've spent the last 26 years in Wisconsin raising a family, going to school and working at the University of Wisconsin. I've got three daughters (ages 27, 25, and almost 21!), none with children or husbands. They keep me crazy and sane, all at the same time! I am newly single and finding it to be a very strange experience after being with one person for 31 years. But there are lots of things to do, places to go, and people to see. My oldest daughter and I are best friends and my youngest still needs her mom (yay!) Singledom has created new bonds with my middle daughter, besides our annual triathlon. I bike to work, kayak, ski, and (sometimes) run. I love to be "domestic" and I like to travel. (As a family we managed to go on 4 sabbatical leaves each for a year: Denmark, Australia, The Netherlands, and Chile.) My new adventure is building houses with Habitat for Humanity. My first build was in Papua New Guinea last spring and I'm leading a trip to Zambia next August (2010), if anyone wants to come along! :) That's my life in a nutshell. I'd love to hear from anybody from the old days. Although I still live and wo...Expand for more
rk in Wisconsin (Go Packers!), I come back to California periodically because my mom still lives in Westlake Village. PS. Truth time: Although everyone in high school knew me as Jeanne, my real name is Jeannette. And Cathy McDonald and I weren't cousins! Just best friends. :) 2014 Update: Since I last visited I have taken an early retirement from the University of Wisconsin and loving it! It's like being 19 again with my whole life ahead of me (what's left of it!) but this time I have a bit of money to do some things. After retirement I decided to try to be patient and open to what might come along. Right now I'm working in Italy for 5 months on a Fulbright Award, basically doing what I was doing at UW (creating a national education program for veterinarians online) but for the Italians. I'm also running a non-profit foundation that is training and funding 150 women in rural Zambia to create businesses to bring in income for their families and their community (the same community where I led a Habitat Build back in 2010). It's been quite a ride and I'm thoroughly enjoying it: challenging and rewarding at the same time. My question to you: You only have so much time left: are you doing what you want to be doing?
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