Mary Cullings:  

Life Never really knew quite knew what I wanted to be when I graduated from Kenwood's excellent commercial course, but very quickly realized that being a "secretary" or "transcriptionist" wasn't really my bag. I've never liked taking orders. As luck happened, within the same week I received job offers for "personnelist" or "secretarial" type positions at Martin-Marietta and Edgewood Arsenal, MD. I decided on Uncle Sam and couldn't have made a better choice. I stayed on for 37 years and retired as a GS-13, Special Agent in Charge. Yes, can you believe it, "little Mary." I actually became a Federal Agent. I attended evening college after a divorce from my first husband in the early 1970's. I have two wonderful and very handsome sons, ages 33 and 35. After being employed with the U.S. Army, then the U.S.Public Health Service, and beginning my college studies at Towson State, I eventually transferred over to work with the Department of Defense in 1980. I found my niche' and began gradually working my way up the management "chain." I remarried in 1990 to my current spouse, a retired enginner from AT&T, Hunt Valley, MD. Sam chose to retire when he married his "Special Agent", and has moved with me across the states. As my career began to pick up, the children entered college, and I began to move to various supervisory/managerial positions throughout the Agency. I served in Ft. Meade, Hanover, MD, Towson, MD; then Augusta, GA, also in Phoenix, AZ, and then Special Agent in Charge of th...Expand for more