judith arroyo:
CLASS OF 1980
Southview High SchoolClass of 1980
Lorain, OH
judith's Story
My life after graduation has been pretty quiet. i started working 8 months after graduating for the county of Lorain and just retired in February of this year 2011. 30 years, i never thought I would make it. i started off as a clerk and worked my way up to a supervisor, talk about stress, i had it and more. i supervised 6 people with many personalities and backgrounds it was fun at times, but it was always a job and nothing that I loved. i am still looking for the job that i am going to love.
I never got married officially but was in a committed relationship with Arnie Berrios for 12 years, 6 years ago he died of a massive heart attack in front of me at home and from that day forward i only take one day at a time because tomorrow is not promised to me or any of us. We had 1 child, a son. He and Arnie were so close, they shared the love of sports and took me along with them. We had our son in soccer, basketball, football and baseball. arnie started his own travel baseball team and the parents were so dedicated to the team when he died that we continued it and they made me the General manager, Imagine that, I knew nothing about baseball, but I kept it going until my son was in high school. I miss it so much. I have a wonderful son, who is so much like his father that it amazes me. he is warm, kind, giving, polite, love of family, sensitive, funny with that weird sense of humor his father had.
He made me a grandmother at 48 years old, I'm too young! It's a boy, his name is Isaiah, he is so handsome. I know I am alittle bias right? I guess to me, it is my second chance to be a parent and make it up for all the things I messed up with my own son.
I am just enjoy my life now with my son, his son and the baby's mommy. She is a great mother. We are all living together and we help each other. She is keeping me young with the way I dress and put my make up on. I never had a daughter so here is my second chance again.
I hope my old class mtate would remember me as kind and genuine. I was very shy and quiet, it was the way I was brought up. My son and people who know me now say they can't believe i was shy, because i am not shy now. We all have to grow up sometime-right?
I always wanted to be a police officer when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a good idea. As it turns out, they were wrong, I could not stand to see anyone dead.
I like to read romantic novels, my kid makes fun of me, everyone makes fun of me, I am a romantic at heart i love happy endings. i like to exercise by walking and dancing. I am not as skinny or as fit as I should be but I try. My son just got me to go fishing with him, it is so relaxing. I am still a beginner. I just got a bike so I am bike riding for fun. I like to learn how to ride a motorcycle so I can travel. Wish me luck.
I have lived all my life in Lorain, I don't regret it at all. I wanted my son to know where I was brought up and appreciate a simple life. He just graduated from Lorain High the school system just merged AK and Southview. i am so proud of him he doesn;t think that i am.
I have gone on vacation to Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia Beach, Colorado, Arizona, Michigan. Canada, Nebraska, New York. I need to do some more living. I want to get an RV and travel. California here I come!!
I enjoy sports and seeing it with my son, he is so much fun, he gets so excited. I love Ohio sports!! I did not like reality tv until my son and his girlfriend got me hooked to Jersey Shore=help me!!!
I do have a dog he is 2 years old his name is oreo, he is black, part border collie and lab. He is such a good dog. He is my first and probably my last. Imagine being 48 and getting my first pet. I don't regret it. he loves me unconditionally and is happy to see me everyday. Yea for me!!!
I thought by now I would have seen the world more, but when you have a great job that pays good, with great health insurance and weekends off, you get stuck and you deal with it. I would not change a thing, did I already tell you I am retired at 49.
I learned from my son to be loving and kind, I have learn to listen first and react second. Counting to 10 does work sometimes!!!
My first crush now revealed-drum roll please was Frank Gonzalez, I liked him since junior high. I thought he was so cool and handsome. He never knew and he never knew I existed. I was so shy and I never thought I was not very attractive. Oh well, I am over him. lol. My first love well that is all a whole new story- hands down Arnie Berrios. i hope life now has a new love for me along the way.
If I had a one do over, i would have been more outgoing not s...Expand for more
o shy and quiet when I was in school. Made more firends and be kinder to my class mates that were not so pretty or who did not dress so nicely I wish I would have gone out for sports like track and not let those silly teachers talk me out of it. If i know what i know now, i would have not stayed in Ohio and went into the military maybe the navy and made it a carreer so that i would have seen the world. I wish I would not be able to say i wish I would of, could of should of.
In 10 years, I hope to be still healthy, enjoying my grandchildren, traveling.. I'm going to get there by excercising regularly, getting a motorcyle to travel or a RV, maybe if God permits, i meet someone who likes to do the things i do and we get along grow old gracefully and loving..
My oldest and dearest friend is and still is Sylvia Arocho. i meet her in the 4th grade when we both wore the same outfit. When we went to different elementry school we lost touch of each other and we met up again in junior high school. it was as if we never stopped begin friends. We worked with each other for a little bit and then she got married, I was in her wedding, she moved to Florida, i visited her once there and was going to move there but I found my love and got pregnant and started my family. We would keep in touch now and then and it never felt like we lost a beat. She lost her husband like i did suddenly and she came back to Ohio and we now go to movies and do things together. We picked up like if nothing or times has seperated us. We can talk and laugh at ourselves and the silly things we did when we were younger!!! I am so glad life has brought her back here so that I can share my time with her.
If we had a reunion now, i would surprise people in the fact that i am not shy anymore and I am pretty confident. I am at peace with myself and just happy to be healthy and have firiends and family who I am close with and love me.
My childhood memory I will never forget was when I was in the 4th grade. i was at Lowell and are classroom was the stage of the school. My teachers name was mrs. Dovin. I had a classmate by the name of Jerry Hall, she was tall, skinny, she had the redest hair that was never brushed or clean. She had frickes that were everywhere on her body. Her clothes were dirty and smelly. Her shoes were old torn. She was so shy. my classmates and myself included were mean to her we would tease her, pull her hair and call her awful names. She had no friends. She lived in an apartment on 28th and Pearl, bad side of town to me at the time. One day mrs. dovin was doing roll call and when she got to jerrys name no one answer. she asked us if anyone knew about her and why she was not in school, ofcourse no one answered her we wanted nothing to do with jerry are you kidding me? then all of a sudden in walked jerry. Her hair was washed it was curled with a blue bow in her hair. She had the most beautiful dress I had ever seen, it was so fancy. It was blue with lots of ruffles. Her socks and shoes were new and she smelled like perfume. She was so happy, We all told her she looked so nice. All of a sudden I looked over to mrs. Dovin she had this look on her face, she was teaching us a lesson without saying any words. That look has stayed with me forever. I told my son that story when he was growning up. I told him no matter what people look like from the outside, it is what is in the inside that matters. I told him to be kind always and not to be mean but to try to make friends with everyone, becuase they all have a story. After that day in class, Jerry changed too, she took better care of herself. I became friends with jerry, I would go after school to her house The next year she moved away, I always think of her and wonder what happened to her. I hope she remembers me and I hope she has forgiven me for every mean action or words i ever said to her. I hope her life is wonderful. I always wanted to thank Mrs. Dovin for this great lesson she taught me, she passed away a few years ago, I want to one day pass this story on to her family and let them know what she did for me. She showed me to be kind, loyal, considerate, that is why now when I am somewhere and a stranger passes me I smile and say hello, or if they sit by me, I strike up a conversation and make them laugh. Everyone deserves a chance. thank you Mrs. Dovin and Jerry.
Well, this is my whole liife story in the short version. Up until now. i hope you enjoyed it. i loved writing it. Please keep in touch with me. I would love to hear from by classmates from Southview 1980 and all of you from Southview, God bless, I send you great health and always be at peace. judy
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