Reg Reynolds:  

Life Married (we just passed our 56nd wedding anniversary). Joyce (nee Denham) attended South and then Tech for art; and I picked her up at a dance at Beck. 3 kids, 5 grandchildren. Retired in 1992. Worked part time in the Ontario government's Intensive Behavioural Intervention program for young children with autism from 2001 to 2009, and just recently "retired" again. As you know, we started with six Grade 9 classes and ended with one Grade 13 class, from which (as I recall) six people went on to university. I never even considered it. However, my older sister, Shirley, had attended Normal School -- the tuition at the time was, I think, $50 -- so I decided to do that. I had been accelerated in elementary school and was far too immature to be a teacher so, although I passed, I didn't pursue teaching. I worked in a drug store for a while, then got a job as a lab technician at Victoria Hospital, in a heart research project. When that contract ran out, I transferred to Physiology and stayed with that job until the grad student that I was working for convinced me to go back to school. I did a mediocre year of pre-med and then worked for the Department of Physics while completing my BA part-time. By that time, I had discovered a passion for psychology. I did an MA, workled for five years, and then went back for a Ph.D. I worked as a psychologist in the Department of health for 10-11 years,and then for Corrections for about 20 years before retiring in 1992. After a few years of private practice, I became interested in autism -- my youngest daughter was worki...Expand for more