Marsha Fall:  

I am from Louisville, Kentucky. My schools include Waggener High School, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville (B.A. degree, English, minor in education), Johns Hopkins (Master's Liberal Arts), Medill School at Northwestern University (Journalism classes), plus University of Maryland, George Mason University, University of Virginia for various post-grad courses. After a year of teaching high school English in Louisville, I moved to Maryland for another teaching job. There I met my husband Jim Fall. We had an adventurous 41 years together which included living in Bonn, Germany for 2 years, Berne, Switzerland for 4 years, and Paris for 6 years where Jim was the Financial Attache at the US Embassies. He was an international economist for the U.S. Treasury Department. We had two sons together who have grown up to be fine men, as their father was. Our travels gave me the opportunity for some interesting job opportunities. I taught journalism part-time at the International School in Berne. In Paris, I was the editor of the Embassy NEWS, a weekly newsletter which went out to about 5,000 diplomats throughout France. Upon returning to the States and living in Falls Church, Virginia , I went back to teaching high school En...Expand for more