Theresa Fellmann:  

Hi All! I just looked through the 1970 yearbook! Wow! What beautiful faces! To be that young again! Who knew what we were really capable of doing at that tender age....Well, a lot has happened since then. Like many of you, I went to DVC to start out with. A couple of years later I went on to Berkeley and majored in Chemistry of all things. Never loved it, but it was amazing training for the brain and for life - I did a few things with it - some lab work, some technical and textbook writing and many, many enlightening moments of teaching and tutoring throughout the years, I got married in 1977 and moved to Cambridge where my husband, Jere went to MIT in Chemistry. I worked at various companies back East as a technical writer until we had our first child, Hans, in Boston. Took one look at our precious son and halted my tech writing career to be a full-time mom. In 1983 we moved back to California where our family and our hearts were and had our daughter, Anna. During that time I continued tutoring math and chemistry and ran a learning center for a few years while herding and corralling our two kids with their activities.Things were fairly normal until our kids finished college and launched off on their adventures. Our son went into the Peace Corps in the dessert country of Turkmenistan and our daughter went on a premed internship in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador. That's when the real adventures began! I got involved with helping an indigenous Shuar community (the head-shrinkers of the amazon) build a school in the jungle, and from there I decided we needed a way to give our supporters a way to claim a tax break so I founded a non-profit corporation called SUS...Expand for more