Laurie Spresser:
CLASS OF 1969
St. Joseph AcademyClass of 1969
Bay st. louis, MS
Laurie's Story
I attended St. Joe's my freshman and sophomore years. The school closed at the end of my sophomore year. I wasn't a local girl. My Dad worked for NASA. We moved to New Orleans and I graduated from Archbishop Blenk Academy there in '69.
I loved St, Joseph's. Ann Peneguy was my best friend. Of the faculty, I especially remember "Soeur Ann Madelaine", the French teacher. My husband and I were married in the St. Joseph Mother House in New Orleans. Several of the nuns living there attended the ceremony (what else to do on a Saturday night at the convent?). As I walked down the aisle, there she was! Soeur Ann Madelaine. Quite a moment....Expand for more
Today, I have been married for 40 years to husband, Bill. We have 3 great kids - no marriages, tho', and only 2 pseudo grandkids courtesy of our daughter's boyfriend. It's tough because those boys have 4 perfectly great grandparents already so we are not sure where we fit in.
I received my master's degree in social work from Arizona State University in 1982. I have been a medical social worker, first working at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix with chronically ill children and, for the past 12 years, at Mayo Clinic Arizona working with a primarily geriatric patient population. Love my work but, most days, just too darn much of it...
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