Laura Blackburn:  

Life Right now I'm getting ready to start a business with my youngest daughter - Anna, we're going to combine our massage business with a friend who has an all-service beauty salon! We're excited about it. I have my Masters in Education, I waited until my five children were almost grown and I was newly divorced to go back to school at CSUB. I taught for awhile but I'm ready for sometime new. I was at the 40 year reunion, I went with Ann Litterell. Everyone recognized her, but no one recognized me, I guess its my RED hair. School I think I was a late bloomer, if I bloomed at all. I should have waited until my senior year to start as a freshman! I only dated one North High guy, Eddie Grimes, I seemed to have a thing for South High and Arvin guys. Mr. Kinnet was my favorite teacher he always gave me an A, and his class was fun and sometimes crazy. The funniest thing I remember happened in Mr. Bootman's biology class. All the boys knew how I felt about snakes- one day when I was not sitting in my seat, someone got hold of my straw purse, when class finished I opened it to put up my pencil, but there was a snake in it, Mr. Bootman had quite a time getting me to stop screaming! But then there was the time in chorus (our new teacher had a German name) he would always call me Miss Shoemker- well, I was busy yaking with someonelse in class and he said,"Miss Shoemaker, shape up!" My reply was,"Oh, I want to, I want to." I probably weighed a whole buck at the time. Then there was the time in Enlish lit when we had to read aloud our own stories we wrote. For some reason I was ahead of my time, everything I wrote was like something from Steven King (not necessarialy S. King quality though) I really wanted a good grade and because I would get s...Expand for more