Marie Stuart:  

freshman year at Towson State.After leaving Towson State I had two children. I did go to Prince George's Com. College in the early 70s to continue working on my BS degree, but had to stop again because of marital problems. We bought a house and moved to Mayo, Md, and I went to work for Woodies. The marriage ended. After changing to a corporate job at Woodies, I went back to school pt at Anne Arundel Com. College and then the University College receiving my BS in Business/Accounting. After retiring from Woodies, and now in my 2nd marriage to Charlie Stuart (BCC, '56), I went to Chesapeake Bible College to get my Master in Ministry. I also worked some toward my PhD in Christian Counseling before moving to Jacksonville. Workplace I did volunteer work during high school at both the Veteran's Administration Hospital in DC and Spring Grove State Hospital in Baltimore. My first paying job was as a Sales Associate, then Sales Assistant Manager in Dresses in the Annapolis Store. I was promoted to Department Manager of Shoes. I joined corporate offices as Internal Auditor in 1981 and moved to the DC main offices. While there, I moved a few years later to Shortage Control as an auditor/analyst. We moved to the new Alexandria offices. In the early 90s and after the merger with John Wannamaker's, I moved to Information Systems under Sandy Berg. She was probably the best corporate manager I had. My title there was Price Management Administrator and later also EDI Analyst. I left Woodies in 1996 before the final bankruptcy. We were going through lay-offs then, and I told Sandy that if any others had to go, let it be me, for everyone else in the department were young people just starting out and I could afford to leave. After all, Charlie was retired and I wouldn't mind retiring too! After retirement, while taking course for my Master in Ministry Degree, I was a Lecturer in Bible for Chesapeake Bible College & Seminary. After getting my Master's degree, I became a professor and taught classes in Bible, church history, and basic counceling. I later also took responsibility as registrar of the Edgewater campus. I have continued as a volunteer teacher in Christian Formation at my church, St. John's Chapel (Episcopal), here in Jacksonville. In our spare time, both Charlie and I have a stall in Tin City Antique Mall where we sell Railroadania, art glass, other smalls and some furniture and primitives. Of course, we do a lot of work with church commissions and Habijax and food ministries.