Patricia A. Dolby :  

Life After graduation I worked for about a year and then Lee and I got married and lived in Pittsburgh until he graduated from Carnegie Tech. We moved soon after graduation to Williamsville, New York and lived there for eleven years. Oh, those long cold winters! We made some wonderful friends while there and we're still in touch with them...they're just like family! It was an interesting time; I got involved in community theater among other things. I also had a learning experience...I learned that if a meeting is being held at your home and you try to be a good hostess and go to the kitchen to get the coffee and snacks together; you'll find when you get back that they voted you in as the new den mother! It's not a job that you wanted but neither did anyone else and they thought you'd be the one who was too shy to say "no". It took a number of years but I finally did learn to say "no" in a nice way and not even feel guilty about it. Before learning that lesson I became an extremely busy person though! In 1972 we moved to El Paso along with a number of other families from the company that Lee worked for at the time. We had a wonderful ten years there and made lots of new friends and learned so much about the history of the area and Texas in general. It was so nice back then but I hear that it's not very nice these days and not all that safe anymore either. I could write a book about the time we spent there; it was a very busy time but we have...Expand for more