Barbara Ruediger:  

I was always the quiet, shy, chunky one who sat in the back of the class. I really did not want to go to college but my parents insisted. I wanted to work for a couple years first so I could figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. I graduated the Univ of Hartford, Medical Secretary/Assistant 2-yr program (AS degree) in 1968, then worked for two pediatric surgeons. After setting up surgical trays and assisting the doctors I discovered that the sight of blood was not for me. That ended that career. Aetna hired me in the Data Processing Dept. sent me to IBM for training and then I got my picture in an insurance magazine for using one of the first MTST machines in the country to create annuities for the rich and famous (do you believe Arnold Palmer)! Then I married in 1969, moved to Kentucky for 3 yrs where I worked at a corporate Law Firm and was grateful to return back to Connecticut. After many unusual trying events in my marriage, it was dissolved. Five years passed and I remarried Jim, a man I had known for 7 years. He was a friend of the famil...Expand for more