Janet Louise Givens:
CLASS OF 1966
East Orange High SchoolClass of 1966
East orange, NJ
King's CollegeClass of 1968
Briarcliff manor, NY
Ashland Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
East orange, NJ
Stockton SchoolClass of 1962
East orange, NJ
Columbian Grammar SchoolClass of 1962
East orange, NJ
Janet Louise's Story
Life
After graduating in '71 from NYU, I spent the summer in Europe bumming beds from former classmates whose husbands were stationed in strategic places. I married that fall upon my return and moved to Ohio where I lived until 1994 when I moved to Philadelphia to work at Penn.
Remarried in 1999, we left our Philadelphia life in 2004 and went in the Peace Corps -- teaching English in Kazakhstan. Now we grow mushrooms in Vermont, (not the hallucinagenic ones). I'm writing a book about our time in Kazakhstan -- a much misunderstood country.
College
I started out thinking I'd be a missionary nurse. The missinary part dropped off first, after Bible school. The nursing part dropped off after a year in nursing school. I wound up at NYU, majoring in sociology...Expand for more
, which I love. I eventually got a master's in sociology at Kent State University when I was living in Ohio, raising my sons. I also did four years there toward a Ph.D. in poli sci, but did not finish.
Work Life
I spent a few months selling real estate before my first son was born. Realized I like work that was more collegial. Got into fund raising after I got my masters and stayed in teh fund raising/development field until 1999 when I stared a second career as a psychotherapist. That ended five years later when I became an English teacher for Peace Corps Kazakhstan. I'm now (and have been over the years actually) a writer. I've published one book -- a textbook on Stuttering. Look it up on Amazon.com. I plan to never check off "retired" on applications.
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