Barbara Becker:  

Short version)Travel and language have been an important part of my life along with my family. (Long version)I spent the summer after graduating from Neshaminy HS in Spain and Germany, then attended the Univ. of Delaware for BA and MA in Spanish, minor German. Of that time, I spent almost two years studying in Europe. Because I didn't have an "education" degree, but rather one in literature and language, I taught at private catholic schools in northern Delaware until I met my husband and moved to Texas in 1980. I spent the summer of '80 cramming to pass the Delaware Teacher certification hoping I could just transfer it to Texas. Ha! I had to take a bunch of silly "Texas demanded" courses and so eventually after learning about the teaching environment in Texas I got out of teaching. My husband, a chemical engineer, was working on a plant start up, and I was bouncing around the house, so I decided to go back to school to reeducate myself. I picked computer science since that seemed to be a pretty up and coming topic at the time, especially since we lived very close to the Johnson Space Center and Mission control. While studying computers at the Univ of Houston-Clear Lake, I began to work there and eventually managed the academic computers there and set up their first network in 1985 using MS beta software. We did a lot of beta testing for networks. The World Wide ...Expand for more