Suzanne Allen:  

I started school at University Place Elementary in Washington. We moved to Ramsey, NJ, the summer of 5th grade. I have many fond memories of Univ Place and have never forgotten all my friends there, especially Janet Smith and Joe Simpson I spent 6th thru 12th grade in Ramsey. I played clarinet, piano, violin, upright bass, and percussion throughout these years. I was a member of Regional and All-State Bands in New Jersey. I attended college in LA, CA, at Univ of Southern CA, starting out as a piano performance major. Changed my major a few times and graduated in 1978 with a BA in Social Psychology with minors in Math and Music! At USC I played tenor drum in the Trojan Marching Band, saxophone in Basketball Band, and clarinet in Concert Band. BEST experience of my life. We had SO MUCH FUN!!! After graduation I had a few different jobs in southern CA then settled in Santa Barbara, CA, for work. In 1987 I moved to Orangevale, outside Sacramento, CA, looking for a better job. Found a job at CA Dept of Corrections and moved to Ione, CA, to work in a prison. Yikes! I was the computer nerd. Did everything having to do with computers. Got hurt on the job and transferred to headquarters in Sacramento as the head of Information Security for CDC. Eventually I c...Expand for more