Kathryn Kula:
CLASS OF 1988
High Point Regional High SchoolClass of 1988
Sussex, NJ
Jefferson Township High SchoolClass of 9999
Oak ridge, NJ
Montclair State CollegeClass of 1992
Montclair, NJ
Kathryn's Story
After high school, I went to Montclair State where I majored in chemistry. During my senior year, I met my future husband, Stan, and I interned at Ciba-Geigy pharmaceuticals.
After I finished my undergrad degree, I continued working at C-G as a Quality Assurance scientist. I developed methods used for cleaning validation of manufacturing equipment, sampled the equipment, and reported the results. Stan and I continued to date, even though he moved up to New Haven in 1994. After QA, I moved to analytical research & developement, working in that department through the merger with Sandoz, when we became Novartis.
In 1996, Stan and I got engaged. In 1997, I became a technical writer, writing the monographs used for testing in the QA labs. In 1998, Stan and I got married. Somewhere in there, he quit his job at Yale to move back to the NY metro area. Betw...Expand for more
een 1993 and 1997, I went PT to MSU for my master's degree in chemistry (C-G/Novartis paid for that).
In 2000, Stan and I moved to a lovely home back in Sussex County. In November 2001, we welcomed our first child, Vanessa into the world. In May 2003, Caroline joined us. When I went back to work after maternity leave, I was laid off from Novartis. I guess that I picked a bad day to return.
I decided to go alternate route to become a high school chemistry teacher. In September 2004, I started teaching chemistry and pharmacology at Leonia high school. In June 2005, I left Leonia, for a teaching position in Jefferson (about 10 minutes from home). I love teaching. It is so much more fulfilling than working in pharmaceuticals. Of course, the pay isn't as great, but the trade off is that I can be 10 minutes from home and spend summers with the kids.
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