Wendy Kearns:  

Life After high school, I left for the Army. What a fun thing to do the summer after graduation! I studied a foreign language at the Presidio of Monterey in California. I was permanently injured (bum foot) during training and ended my military career a year later. After spending 2 and a half years in the Army, I came home and worked for a government contractor and then as an HR generalist with an Orlando company. Through some mutual friends, I met and married an Oak Ridge Pioneer (class of 84). When my youngest was two, I stopped working to take care of my boys. When Chris was in fifth grade, I finally went to college, first at Valencia and then at UCF where I will be graduating in a few weeks with a Bachelors in Education, summa cum laude and top honor graduate. With the teacher hiring freeze, I don't know whether I will be teaching next year (I would love to teach fourth grade) or if I will start my Masters which I am scheduled to begin in a few years. Joe and I have been married for fourteen years (awesome guy) and we have two boys, Grayson (age 18) and Chris (age 13). Never ...Expand for more