Kathleen Carlson:  

Life While at Union, I met Tim Carlson, who had gone to Campion Academy. We married in June, 1967, and moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, where Tim received his master's degree. You could have called us the Rapid Citybillies as we moved in two cars to Berrien Springs, Michigan, where Tim taught science at the academy, and I finished my degree in Elementary Education. The University of Minnesota and Maple Plain were our next destinations. Tim spent one winter walking across the bridge to class, and I spent my first year of teaching in the two-room church school with 10 students. We vagabonds were off again the next summer to Denver, Colorado, where Tim found a position in a lab at the University of Colorado Medical Center, and I worked on my masters in Education at CU (also became a master at naming the flower children on the "hill"). We loved Colorado, and I worked at Mile High Academy for three years in their libraries. It was in 1976 that we traveled to Kansas to pick up our newborn son, Theodore Christian. His adoption finalized in five months, but it seemed like five years! When grant money began to dry up at the University, Tim decided to resume his work on his PhD at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He succeeded, while I ran a home day care and then found a library position at three of the Pueblo Day Schools, Zia, Jemez and San Felipe. I loved my jobs there, but was interrupted by something even more exciting...a year's residence in Malmö, Sweden, where Tim worked at the University of Lund Medical Center in Malmö...Expand for more