Deborah M. Johnson:
CLASS OF 1985
Miss Halls High SchoolClass of 1985
Pittsfield, MA
Colby CollegeClass of 1989
Waterville, ME
Marblehead High SchoolClass of 1985
Marblehead, MA
Marblehead Middle SchoolClass of 1981
Marblehead, MA
Glover Elementary SchoolClass of 1978
Marblehead, MA
Deborah M.'s Story
Life
I was born in Salem Hospital, & grew up on Endicott Ave. in Marblehead, where my parents still live. From 1st grade to 5th grade I walked to & from Glover School (almost a mile each way) every day & enjoyed that, even when I was by myself. I did well in class (except history, which I had no interest in) & for the most part enjoyed school.
On weekends I did stuff with friends, visited &/or walked all the dogs in the neighborhood, rode my bike around, & played in my back yard. Summers were spent at the ocean or Beach Club pool in Swampscott, playing tennis, or at summer camp & family vacations up in Maine.
From 6th-8th grade I took the bus to Marblehead Middle School & started going into Boston/Cambridge on weekends to spend hours in the COOP music store or walk around the stores of Harvard Square & Quincy Market. In the summer I took sailing lessons at Pleon Yacht Club or volunteered at Salem Hospital, still making sure to fit in The Beach Club when time allowed.
For 9th-12th grades, instead of being at Marblehead High School, I went to prep school (like my brothers) & attended Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield, MA. While there I sang in a small chorus, played JV and Varsity Softball, took horseback riding, & participated in a few school plays. Spring Break of my Junior year was spent in England, which was a great experience (especially the canal boats). After graduating in 1985, I attended Colby College in Waterville, ME & graduated with a B.A. in Psychology/Liberal Arts.
After college, I lived & worked in Brighton, MA for a year and then moved up to Burlington, VT to live with my boyfriend, Andy Johnson (a friend from Colby who graduated in 1987). While he earned his Ph.D. at UVM, I held various temp. jobs, got a medical transcription degree, then worked as a medical secretary for a while. During this time we adopted a stray kitty, who soon delivered four kittens, two of which we kept & two which got adopted out.
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got married in 1993 just a block away from the original Ben & Jerry's, then in 1994 we moved to Dublin, OH for Andy's post-doc at OSU(Go Bucks!). I continued to do medical secretary work, then we moved to Massachusetts in 1998 after realizing that the Mid-West just didn't suit us. We missed the snow & fall foliage of New England, the natural surroundings, Boston, & I wanted to live closer to my parents.
After a few years of renting in Littleton, MA, in 2001 we bought our first house in Harvard, MA, a suisse chalet in the country w/ woods & creatures all around us. I've been an admin. assistant at Boston Biomedical Consultants, Inc. for almost five years, while Andy has been a project manager at PerkinElmer Life Sciences. We try to keep in touch w/ college friends, but not often enough of course. We don't plan to have kids, but hope to adopt a dog or two some year soon.
We've traveled to the Caribbean a couple of times, Alaska for our 10th anniversary in 2003, Italy in Sept. 2004, & we hope to go many more places like the Galapagos, Africa, and explore more of Europe & Alaska. We've recently had our kitchen/diningroom area remodeled & we're very happy with the results, but we're already thinking about the next project. I sing in my UU church choir & do a lot of reading, listening to music, & working on various hobbies around the house. I still love to swim, play tennis & ride my bike, but I don't do it often enough, as I also still enjoy sleeping in on the weekends.
I have an older brother (Jim) & his wife & kids (2 boys & 1 girl) living in Wilmette, IL, & one brother (Ben) & his wife living in Dunstable, MA. Recently Andy & I decided to be a one-car family for a while, so we finally broke down & got cell phones this month, so maybe we'll do better in the "communicating w/ friends & family" department. Also, after decades of wearing glasses &/or contact lenses, I finally had LASIK surgery on both eyes this May & it's been so great, so worth it.
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