Joy Fitzgerald:  

CLASS OF 1977
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Woodstock AcademyClass of 1977
Woodstock, CT
Vernon rockville, CT
Willington, CT
Lennox High SchoolClass of 1984
Lennox, SD
Onawa, IA

Joy's Story

School Pre-school in Putnam, CT with Mrs. Green Kindergarten - half year with Mrs. Myers in Putnam K-12 in Woodstock Kindergarten - 2nd half year with Mrs. White 1-4th at Woodstock Public School 1 grade with Mrs. Fairfield 2nd grade with Mrs. Lamb 3rd grade with Mrs. Withey 4th grade with Mrs. Martin 5-8th at Woodstock Middle School 5th grade with Mr. Beauvais 6th grade with Mr. Rhinehart 7th grade with Mrs. Kimball 8th grade with Mr. Cohen 9-12th grades at Woodstock Academy Summer TRITRACK workshops held at Rhode Island College, 10-12th Activities: Band, Choir, Library Club, Bowling League, Math Club, Spanish, Pottery and Volleyball Funniest and Most embarrassing event in HS : Flipping Desk in English Class (Mr. Greer's Freshman English Class) in the middle of class when Randy passed a canada mint to me to pass to Leslie... and it rolled on the floor and when I reached out and tried to pick it up, the desk slipped out from under me and I ended up sideways on the floor in sitting at my desk. 2nd most embarrassing was the day I walked into Chemistry Class and the Chemistry teacher had just flipped a machine in reverse and it spit out all this gunky junk all over my pants and my suede books and I actually had to leave school to go home and change my pants. 3rd most embarrassing moment was Sliding off the Manual Kick Pottery Wheel and getting pants ripped open on a nail and having to wear a coat tied around waist for the remainder of the school day. Most Traumatic Experience was getting upset at the end of the year in Biology and I actually got up and Walked out of Class slamming the door behind me. Inspirational Teachers: Mr. Lynn, Mrs. Heckendorf, "Lady" (Mrs.Ingraham), Ms. Johnston, Mrs. Angelo, Mr. Graves, Mr. Budd, Mr. Tedeschi, Ms. Novak, and Mr. Izbicki and Mr. Taylor. Silliest memories : Math Meet and Pottery After Math Meets when we were intellectually drained and tires and up at MASS MUTUAL after the New England Math Meet and we invented "Chiggle and Chiggling"...(Becky do you remember that?) COLDEST experience: Being "forgotten" and left on the steps of the Library in February and getting hypo-thermia while everyone thought I was missing College Morningside College First roommate : Nancy "Hank" from Correctionville, IA who moved to Sorority House half way through first semester 2nd roommate: Martha from MA who moved in when "Hank" moved out. 3rd roommate: Rachel who moved in a year later when Martha decided she wanted to room by herself 4th roommate: Chris who wanted to move to a different room RA's and Head Residents Locked door and midnight curfew Panty Raids and Candy Machine Raids (to save the girls figures form the candy) Dances Freshman Ice Cream Parties Stone Park Football Games and the Pep Band RCI and Tues. a.m. Prayer and Communion Meetings Library Closing and the CRAZY Person who came to the Library in a Trench Coat...Expand for more
and waving legal papers and a black plastic garbage bag at 9:15 at night looking for the "President" of the College to blame for his personal problems Trip with HONORS Group to Kansas City with Car dying and Dr. Hodges embarrassing me the next english class for forgetting clothing in the back of his station wagon. ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with Tim Orwig, Tom and others. Night-time tour of Sioux City, Toy Monument (Cemetary, etc) and ending up on the hillside next to the Peak and overlooking the OXBOW singing the "Grapefruit Song" at 3 a.m. Going with Mick and family on boat Singing with AGAPE group and going out to perform and receiving pot luck dinners Play for Jay's senior project: The Courtyard ... playing a bitter woman and getting bitter lessons from Peg Spinning a 360 degrees when returning from Play with Steve and Jay and Kari. Seeing Star Wars for first time on Thanksgiving Day with Sally Giving Peg her "P-----" Pillow Young Adult Activities at Methodist Church with Ron Kitterman. Taking FORTRAN 77 Class Ceramic Classes and ART TRIPS to CHICAGO and Dianna's OPAH GRADUATE SCHOOL SUMMERS at University of Northern Colorado Sharing dorm with Denver Broncos Veterans and Coaches 1st summer Coach Dan Reeves scaring the daylights out of me after letting him in the dorm after he was locked out due to the 8 p.m. curfew. Football Player visiting roommate "Adrianna" one weekend Going home with roommate Carol and going to first RODEO over 4th of July Sharing next dorm with Denver Broncos Rookies Sharing the dorm the last year with Denver Broncos Press and meeting some famous people outside the Press room while doing laundry. New Roommate, Alexa, from NYC, without driver's license for ID, she was there for the Summer Theater who needed to borrow money to go play POLO in Denver. Visiting relatives nearby Visiting friends in Denver area 2nd MASTER'S DEGREE (COMMUTER) to University of Rhode Island 1 Long ONE AND A HALF HOUR COMMUTE EACH WAY 2 2 Courses held at UCONN 3 Testing out of REFERENCE 4 Early DIAL UP INTERNET with Phone Cradle modem, etc. 5 Car Trouble and almost being attacked on way home when Electrical System blitzed out and guy in TRUCK tried to "Help" "Jump" the Battery at RUBINO's Seafood Stand at 10 at night 6 Graduation with Author Keynote Speaker Teaching and working in all aspects of many different kinds of Libraries and Schools since getting certifications. Graduate Night School Audiovisual Media & Reference Librarian Midnight Internet Librarian in Public Library Rectrospective Conversion/Cataloging Librarian through Library Consultant Work for College, University, Medical, Special, State and School Libraries Library Department Head work in K-12 schools Library Network Administrator Automation Librarian Teacher-Librarian M.I.S. Services Internship at PRATT/UTC
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