Betty aka Elizabeth Mulligan:  

My life has been a wonderful adventure since high school graduation. Looking back . . . senior year was a very difficult year. My Mother passed away suddenly June 1966. My plan for college changed and I went to work. In 1968 I married Richard Mabee from Middletown, NY. He was in the Air Force and returning from Vietnam. We eloped and several days later flew to Boise, Idaho as his next assignment was at Mountain Home Air Force Base. In 1969 I gave birth to my daughter, Michelle Rene. In 1970 Richard and I divorced. We were living across the country without family support and too young to know how to get help during the devasting post Vietnam era. In 1972 life took an exciting change and I started my career in Human Resources at Boise Cascade World Headquarters in Boise, Idaho through a Job 70's Training Program. In 1976 I relocated to a suburb of Chicago, Evanston, IL. I have been in Human Resources for 37 years and have worked for some wonderful top and Fortune 500 companies, such as, American Hospital Supply Corporation, Gaylord Container, Rank Video a London based organization, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Rand McNally, and CSM a Dutch owned corporation. Now it is March 2009 and due to the affects of the ec...Expand for more