Laurie Black:
CLASS OF 1979
Mitchell High SchoolClass of 1979
Colorado springs, CO
Foothill CollegeClass of 1994
Los altos hills, CA
Los angeles, CA
University of Colorado - BiochemistryClass of 1983
Boulder, CO
Laurie's Story
After graduating from Mitchell, I went to CU Boulder. I was in a sorority there, Alpha Chi Omega and graduated in 1983 with a biochemistry degree. I was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the Air Force and was stationed in Sunnyvale, CA in the San Francisco bay area where I worked in the satellite field. After being told that my next assignment was to be Los Angeles, I decided to get out so that I could stay in the bay area. On my way to my first job interview, I was hit by a delivery truck, which broke the same vertebrae that Superman broke and put me in a coma for a month. After 3 months of hospita...Expand for more
lization and 5 more months of therapy, I was retired from the Air Force and I went to work for IBM, doing more satellite work! I met and married an Air Force officer while in Sunnyvale who helped me decide to change my career to respiratory therapy. We then moved to VA and after 3 years there were sent back to Colorado Springs. We have 2 children: a teenage girl that goes to St. Mary's and an 11 year old boy that attends Divine Redeemer. Oh, by the way, I was only paralyzed for a few months due to swelling on my spinal cord, not spinal cord injury, which is what happened to Christopher Reeves.
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