Carol Dalenko:  

Hi. I graduated from Ferndale High in 1961 and went to the University of Michigan, graduated in 1965, taught high school for a year outside Detroit (Belleville High), then returned to the U-M. I married in 1963, but we never had children (his choice). We moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1969 where we both were on the faculty at the U-Illinois. I was on the physics faculty, and also developed interactive computer-based lessons on the PLATO computer system. I continued to work on my Ph.D. in absentia, then divorced in 1973. Never remarried - almost a couple times, but then chickened out. I moved to Baltimore, MD in 1976 to work at Control Data's computer-based education learning center until 1979, then free-lanced as a computer analyst before retiring before I was 40 yrs old. I always loved horses and didn't understand why we couldn't have a pony in our backyard on a 1/4-acre lot on W. Troy in Ferndale. I've always had a dog or two as pets, and now have horses on a 20-acre farm in North Carolina outside Raleigh. I've dabbled in politics, thinking I could make an honest difference to fight corruption, but got burned by the politically biased news media after nearly unseating a veteran politician in the NC Senate. I studied law, but decided I didn't want to be a lawyer, but I would like to write a book to help DIYers. // I remember the old Lincoln High on 9 mile rd, the high ceilings and tall windows, which closed after my freshman year (1958). My best memories are riding my bicycle around Ferndale to visit my friends Judy Colvin, Nancy Na...Expand for more