Nancy Zajac:  

Hi all, the class of 1971, You may remember me as a young women with very long blondish hair. I was often told I had beautiful hair. I was involved in timing for the swim team as my boyfriend off and on was Mark Barber. He and I don't even know each other these days. He want into the Navy and we dated one year after that and parted. I do know he is married and lives in Taylor,MI with his wife and boys. That is all I know. If anyone knows him, I would love to say hi to him. Anyway, I graduated from Northern Michigan University(Marquette, UP) in Nursing and came back down state and worked for the University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital in Pediatrics (sick newborn to 18mo) in Ann Arbor. I was there for about 15 yrs. I also after graduation, worked for Marinette General Hospital in WI and lived in Menominee, MI. It was less than a year and I moved downstate. I married John in 1976. He's a great guy and works in the auto industry. He has worked in that industry all his career life and currently does product planning at design at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI. We have been married 37 yrs and still live in Ann Arbor. We adopted a 3 month old girl who we named Katherine, Kate in 1982.She was 10 weeks premature weighing 3# 1oz. She has been the light of our live At 9 months we were told she had cerebral palsy. She had manor stiffness in her legs and required several surgical procedures while growing up. I also worked at Child Health Associates in A2. Kate is now 31yrs old and lives in Canton. Her disability though does not stop her in any way. She is college educated and has traveled the world for school and other events, even saw the Pope John Paul II in Paris. She has written a book and has a New York City literary agent. I tried to work as a young mom, and I returned to Mott and Child-Health Associates. I had a hard time working with so much needed for Kate and I finally just sold MaryKay Cosmetics while Kate was in school. When Kate went into high school I started back to work, part-time. I became a pharmaceutical sales rep for several drug companies from part time to full time ( a really hard job, not that nursing is easy but I was working 60 to 65 hours a week.) I worked until I had to retire in 2001 due to rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. ...Expand for more