Roberta Henry-Baker:  

Life Hey there Class of 68, Had a busy weekend but thought I'd have a cup of tea and write up something. Looks like life in a small box!! Amazing how slow a day can go and how fast life can pass. I worked at the Holiday Inn from the time I was 16 until after graduation from college - summers and holidays. Did freshman year at ISU after a summer as a VISTA volunteer working with migrant labor in Wisconsin. Got disillusioned with school and worked with the grape boycott and Cesear Chavez for a year before heading back to school but went to IU in Bloomington this time. Did 2 years in social work and then had a scholarship to National Outdoor Leadership School for a summer in New England - they asked me to stay on as staff which I truly wanted to but "duty" and the look on my Mom's face made me go back to Indiana and finish school. So, I guess I'm a social worker as well as a mom, wife, landlord, carpenter, bee keeper, care giver, foster mom and chief cook and bottle washer. After school I started working in Indy in the inner city as a caseworker and ended up directing a youth program. Got married and had a baby boy, Nathan who just turned 30. (He's a musician and writer in San Francisco.) Stayed home for a year and then became a child protection worker investigating incest cases. Got burned out and had another baby - my girl, Natalie who just turned 27 and she is married and in grad school in Vermont. My husband of 31 years, Gerry, is a carpenter so we have some fixer upper rentals and I spend weekends sometimes cleaning up renter mess...Expand for more