Dawn Patterson:  

Life Hi there! I actually moved from Houston and Scarborough my ninth-grade year. That was 1983. I moved to Austin with my Mom, and finished high school here at Crocket High. I went to UT, got a psychology degree in 1993, with a minor in physiology. I studied audiology and speech-language pathology for an additional two years. I'd planned to become an audiologist, but life had other plans for me. My husband wanted to go to school for a while, so I worked to put him through a brew master course. He became a brewer at Celis Brewery in Austin. His love affair with beer became a huge problem, and we divorced soon after that, in 1996. Since then, I've been living and working in Austin.I didn't go back to get my audiology masters because I fell into a job doing technical support for IBM. I supported Java on AIX. AIX is the Unix operating system that IBM uses on its huge supercomputers. I rose up in the ranks to a software engineer, where I stayed for many years. Now I'm out of the technical support arena and am doing information development and customer satisfaction projects for the IBM "System p" line of supercomputers. I completed a handbook that is out on the ibm.com site. I'm very proud of that. Though I'm not doing what I thought I'd be doing, I'm the happiest, healthiest, and wealthiest I've ever been. I live in a lovely area in the west hills of Austin, I have a cool and well-paying job, and lots of free time for learning guitar, taking dance lessons, swimming, jogging, and playing with my friends. My picture shows me rejoicing in the hot tub! I'm currently in a committed relationship with a musician/network engineer/carptenter. I told my Mom, "Something for everyone! I enjoy the musician aspect, you enjoy the 'has a day-job' aspect, my Dad enjoys the 'can build a free-standing structure' aspect!" We met at a New Year's Eve party, and we've kept at it ever since. I'd love to hear from people who I knew "back in the day," and find out how they're doing. Drop me a line! Peace and love, Dawn School I started off at Benbrook Elementary. I remember some people from there: JoAnn Gee, Michael Moore, Ron Krc, Troy Coleman, Christine Carlson, etc. Then I went to Ruby Clifton Middle School, where I ran into: Michael Kuhlman, Steve Bartkowiak, Corby Stepanski, Steve Everett, Wade Wood, Clay Connely, Kevin O'Neal, Deana Tucker, Juanita Quiroz, Marisa Duran, Susan Trevino... and so many others. Onward to Scarborough, where I stayed for only a year. Most of the people from Clifton went to Scarborough.I was working on looking like a punk at the time, but believe it or not, I made goo...Expand for more