Betty Outlaw:  

Life Life After high school, I spent a year in Greensboro before returning to Wilmington. I have had a interesting life and have 2 great daughters. Brandy is married and living in Arizona with her husband and 2 kids, Jacob and Rebecca. Beverly is with me and just entered the 8th grade at Southern Middle School as we recently relocated to the Pinehurst area. I was in the Army for 3 years and worked for almost 10 years at Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville. I have been with Cape Fear Eye Associates for over 8 years in medical records. In Fayetteville, I was elected to the position of Elder at Reilly Road Presbyterian Church but have been attending the Episcopal church since relocating and will join them this fall. I am also involved in scouting high school football. Life has taken some interesting turns and I look forward to sharing more news with you all soon. School I started school in a school with all 12 grades. Lee Woodard was the best place to start school because it was so small and personal. Then we moved into Wilson and I went to Wells while my sister went to Fike. I walked to school a lot of days. My parents sent me to Wilson Christian for 5th grade because the public schools were caught up in the struggle that was the civil rights movement in 1969-1970. I went to stay with my grandparents to start 6th grade. That is how I spent 1/2 the year at Princeton, NC and half at R L Brown in Jacksonville, FL. After spending 7th grade at Kirby Smith, our family moved back to NC. We settled in Hampstead, so I finished high school at Topsail. College My first roommate was Belinda. I had never been around anyone who was not from the South. We found a way to work things out. I must have lived a sheltered life to have to ask someone my first week what kind of meat was veal? We always had beef, chicken or fish. There was the weekend Billy Joel was in town and staying at the hotel across from main campus. Some of the kids talked about trying to get in to see him but I was happy just to sit on the front steps. I sure couldn't afford a concert ticket. Then there was the night we were sitting on those same steps and some drunk flipped his jeep by hitting the curb. All the liquor and beer bottles that spilled out when the tow truck turned it over to haul it away! I remember sitting in Odell Hall for hours listening to the music students practice. It was better than the music in the dorm! I specifically remember a guy named Steve Cooper who played the organ and taught me to appreciate classical music. I hope he is still playing. Workplace I've done everything from type forms and sell cigarettes to working a produce market and wait tables in several different...Expand for more