Joyce McLeod:  

Life In 2002 I happily retired from full-time employment and moved from Cleveland, Ohio, to North Carolina where winters are mild and skies are blue on Lake Norman. I still do some freelance graphic design, plus teach knitting and scrapbooking classes, and I admit to being a computerholic. Jim and I have three sons (Mike, Shannon, and Erin) and one daughter (Kelly). Three of our four kids have blessed us with ten grandchildren so far. We've enjoyed exploring North Carolina and LOVE retirement. Life is good! School High school was the greatest back in the 1950s. Didn't we grow up in "the best of times?" As for high school crushes, each new year brought a new one for me, including Larry Arnold, John Sorenson, Bill Keller, and Chips Argeny, to name a few. And I ended up married to my biggest crush, Jim McLeod. The teachers from whom I learned the most were John Peplinski, Elizabeth Behan, Harry Massing, and Esther Bryan. The teacher to whom I gave the most grief was Chet Witkowski (bless him for putting up with us). Fond memories? There are at least a million nesting in my head, but here's a few: walking down State Street after football games, dancing at noonday dances, proms, tris, Y-CO and St. James, hanging out at the Melody Bar with its nickel cokes and penny pretzels, being spanked with a wooden frat paddle in George Kramer's English class, roller skating every Friday night, wearing crinolines soaked in sugar water, playing spin the bottle at Sandy's awesome Halloween parties, signing Sunrise yearbooks every spring, the Boston Store at Christmastime, and the sparkle of Eastcapades. College Even though I spent four years commuting to Edinboro, I didn't get my degree. Instead, I chose to get married and move away from Erie. After years of being a stay-at-home Mom with four kids, I re-...Expand for more