JOANN (BENDER) LAMBERT:
CLASS OF 1963
Santa Clara High SchoolClass of 1963
Santa clara, CA
JOANN (BENDER)'s Story
In our senior year at SCH one of the recruiters that came to the school was from NASA, Moffett Field in Mt. View. I just thought it would be good practice to take the test to get used to taking these tests, so I did. Voila! I got a job offer from them. Since I had started school when I was 4, I was only 16 when I graduated from high school, so they told me I had to wait until I was 17 (in November) to start work. Back in the 60’s NASA was a very exciting place to work!! Met people like John Glenn and Werner von Braun, etc. In 1966 I married and my husband took a job at the Nevada Test Site so we moved to LV. Job opportunities here, other than Casinos which, at that time, would have horrified my parents ☺ I ended up working for the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper for several years. Then I taught kindergarten for a few years. As a hobby I took up hiking and got involve...Expand for more
d in wild edible plants—after all--who wants the burden of a 40 lb. pack when you can have a 12 lb. backpack!! I went to extremes to make it as light as possible—half of comb, short handle on toothbrush, etc. ☺ When you don’t have to carry food, hiking can truly be a delight! You just walk along picking things, and when lunch/dinner times come along, you stop and cook your meal! By that time, I had two children, ages 5 and 7, and we hiked the Pacific Coast trail, through Oregon and Washington for the summer. When we returned, I got a job at a hospital in LV for several years, and then entered the technology field with a company called ViaWest, which is now—by way of a few acquisitions, now called Flexential although I retired a few years ago, before all the name changes. I have been living in Henderson, NV for the past 20 years—currently with my sweet little dog named Terri!
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