Joy Baas:
CLASS OF 1967
Kinyon Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Taylor, MI
Eastern Michigan University - EducationClass of 1977
Ypsilanti, MI
Kennedy High SchoolClass of 1973
Taylor, MI
West Junior High SchoolClass of 1970
Taylor, MI
Monroe Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Taylor, MI
Joy's Story
Life
Len and I were married in 1978 after a 7 year "engagement". Seven years later we welcomed our one and only pride and Alison Joy. Len died suddenly on April 1, 2005; two weeks before our 27th anniversary. Alison graduated from Boston University in 2007 with degrees in English and Japanese. She got married in Philadelphia in March 2008, and currently works for Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago. She and her husband, Steve, have authored several nonfiction children's books. And now I'm a full-time gramma. I moved to Chicago to help raise my bea...Expand for more
utiful, intelligent, funny, sassy, granddaughter, Lucy.
Workplace
I started teaching the hearing impaired in Detroit right out of college and I loved it. When Len transferred to Traverse City, I became a secretary for an oil company. We moved back to Taylor when his Michigan Bell office closed in T.C. I taught full-time in Taylor for 22 years and at Kinyon Elementary for the last 16 of those. I was a learning resource teacher and taught reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic to children with learning disabilities in the 3rd through 5th grades.
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