Susan Clark:  

Life Biography for Susan Clark Largo High School graduating class of 1962 After graduating from LHS, I attended St. Petersburg Junior College for two years and then went on to the University of Florida where I cheered the Gators on for two years and obtained my Bachelor of Arts of Education preparing to teach elementary school. After my student teaching experience of trying to get 1st graders to stay in their seats, I decided that being a stewardess and traveling the world might be a better option. Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) actually came to the campus and interviewed students trying to recruit flight attendants that might speak a language other than English (they required all stewardesses to be fluent in a language other than English). Although to this day, I still can't speak Spanish, my 2 years of study at LHS and a year of college Spanish seem to convince the interviewers that I might be able to learn. I was hired with the promise to go to language school to learn to make announcements in Spanish. Following stewardess training school in Miami, I flew off to a place I had dreamed of living for years - San Francisco - and stayed there most of my life. It was 1966- the time of Haight-Asbury and the "Flower children". San Francisco was truly glorious in those days - an incredible town with unparalleled beauty. I didn't become a hippie, but it was an interesting time in history. As a stewardess for Pam Am stationed in San Francisco, I flew mostly over the Pacific and laid over in great places like Hawaii, Toyko, Taipei, Hong Kong, Sydney, Manila and Bangkok on a regular basis. We also flew over the pole to London and down to Panama City. This was at the height of the Viet Nam war and we also did ...Expand for more