Patricia Loel:  

Well lets see, after high school I spent a couple years "finding myself". I worked as a phlebotomist on campus and then at St. Anthonys hospital. In 81 I started at osu i spent 2 years working full time and going to school full time, (I thought I wanted to be a nurse when I grew up) but I had a change of heart while working at st anthonys. In 83 I was living in german village with lori elliott and her husband when i met my prince charming...we were neighbors and it was love at first sight. I started working for the Mead corp. in 84, first in chillicothe at the research division and then in dayton for mead imaging and finally back in chillicothe with research. I worked for mead a total of 14 years, retiring in 98. Steve (my husband) and I were married in 85 and we have three (sometimes wonderful) children, well actually they are not children anymore. My oldest son, was our baseball player, David in high school pitched his team to the state finals. He then played division I baseball at longwood univ in virginia. he is now a senior at wright state univ. studying to be a mechanical engineer. Our middle son, marcus, is our football player, he played his freshman year for otterbein college, and he currently is going through government red tape in order to join the airforce reserves, his aspiration is to become a lawyer and otterbein is not cheap, so hopefully the air force will be picking up the tab. And last but certainly not least is our youngest, Maggie is 17 and just recently graduated (as a junior) from high school, she'll be attending ohio university chillicothe in the fall on a full scholarship studyin...Expand for more