Wendy Brezin:
CLASS OF 1974
North Miami Beach Senior High SchoolClass of 1974
North miami beach, FL
Florida State UniversityClass of 1982
Tallahassee, FL
Wendy's Story
Life
Went to school forever for doctorate, spent 3 years as school/developmental psychologist, - loved the classes but hated the actual work - and then changed fields and so it was back to school for yet another degree, this time in computer science. Have loved my work with computers both programming and systems/network administration. Was writing and teaching, managing computer systems at a university for ten years, then a web developer for Univ. of Fla. Shands hospital & college of medicine. In 2005 i started a web development business, small clients on evenings and Sundays. Also teach/tutor kids Hebrew a few afternoons a week.
Lived in Israel several years and traveled a LOT. Loved camping and scuba diving. (I can't believe i wound up back in Florida - i was sure i'd be anywhere but FLA.) Finally settled down. Married a great, funny guy, we have a terrific, funny, sweet kid who is in college in NYC. (May 2009- she just graduated both Columbia and Jewish Theological Seminary and started working for a non-profit agency in NYC. 2013 - now she's working at Columbia.) Beat ovarian cancer in 1993-96. Can't live a day without listening to music (any kind), having a good laugh, gardening, swimming, chatting with friends or reading the newspaper. Have lots of friends over regularly for pot-luck Shabbat-Friday night dinners. Love movies, going out for Sunday brunch with friends, veggie garden, swimming, live theatre, reading fiction & non-fiction.
Update 2009: Started my own web development/web programming business, Web Design Kinetix. Now i get to work from home in pjs or, if ...Expand for more
i get really dressed up, i put on jeans & t-shirt. Sweet. - wb
School
Where would i have been without AP American History with Reid Bernstein? Although it was a class about history, the skills she refined in all her students were writing and research. Who could ever forget the unending reports about a topic in history that required a college library to research. And then there were the grades. On our first paper, i recall the highest grade in the class that was earned was a D with many minus signs trailing behind it. Oh how i wished i had done that well! As our use of language improved, we were then held accountable for spelling and punctuation - each mistake could cost a letter grade. By the time i completed the class, i was ready to write for college and beyond, although i did not know that at the time. At the time i felt only joy that this tough class was over. It was only later when i had to write papers for college, grad school and for business, breezing through the research and earning high marks from professors and bosses, that i understood what an amazing gift i had received. When my own daughter started in middle school, my husband and i encouraged her to take the tougher classes, and i hoped she too would take AP History. She did, though in her case she would likely credit her AP English and IB Biology teachers for her writing skills. I spent 3 years working as a developmental/school psychologist. I saw how tough it is to teach. That anyone goes into the profession is amazing. That any of us learn, is, to me, an even greater measure of teachers' dedication.
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