Diana Justice:
CLASS OF 1966
Mt. Si High SchoolClass of 1966
Snoqualmie, WA
University of LondonClass of 2003
London,
Washington State University - SociologyClass of 1970
Pullman, WA
Redmond Junior High SchoolClass of 1962
Redmond, WA
Redmond Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Redmond, WA
Diana's Story
Life
Going back to the beginning... I was born during an earthquake in Hamilton, MT, where my folks were passing through with the small construction company they owned. We moved a lot back then--a family tradition I've continued in my own life.
The Northwest has always been home to me, living in AK, MT, OR & WA. I've traveled around the continental U.S., Hawaii and Canada. Bermuda is the farthest I've been from home.
Lots of education for me: 3 universities and 2 specialty training-certification programs. My career was in the non-profit legal field specializing in 'discrimination in employment' law where I was a paralegal advocate. Two of my favorite non-career jobs were being a fire spotter for the USFS and cashiering in a pharmacy in the days when pharmacies were called "drug" stores! But my most rewarding job was helping people in the non-profit legal work.
My husband (a retired railroader and a ham radio operator) and I love to travel. Family and friends are a priority. We enjoy outdoor get-togethers, Bible study, the ocean, the mountains and are active with our membership in a "vacation-share" company. Between us, we have 5 kids and 9 grandchildren all living in the Northwest.
I'm active in my local church, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Forest Fire Lookout Association.
I'm very happy with my life, my family and my friends--and I'm always open to making new friends or re-connecting with former ones!
School
Redmond Grade School:
Earning badges & selling cookies for Brownies & Girl Scouts; 4th grade-got a pen pal from Texas that still writes me after 51 years; 5th grade-playing Bingo for caramels in Math class; 6th grade-another classmate & I displayed our science project at the Puyallup Fair.
Redmond Jr High:
Drill team practice & the long ride home on the activity bus; sock hops in the gym; climbing the rope to the top of the gym in PE class & getting rope burns sliding back down; Girl Scout Camp every June on Hoods Canal-eating raw oysters & smores around a camp fire and singing songs that I still sing to my grand kids; the Redmond Theater where there was sometimes more going on in the audience than on the screen.
Mt. Si High School:
Fav classes: Mr.Scott's choir & PE classes.
Fav activities: Cheerleading, Annual Staff & Girls Athletic Association.
Happy Memories: football & basketball games-Go Wildcats!; Miss Pakar's English classes; drinking Shirley Temples at the Gateway Cafe after dates; school sponsored dances & dances at the Hall on Friday nights; climbing Mt. Si with friends; adventures & mishaps while cruising with friends; watching Mr. Knoll (wearing a chef's hat with his usual dress pants, dress shirt and bow tie)toast some bread over a Bunson Burner in Chemistry class; my father tripping the circuit breaker to my bedroom if the lights weren't out by midnight when I had girl friends stay overnight; waitressing for spending money; taking the greyhound bus from North Bend to Seattle & back with girl friends clothes shopping; dancing for an assembly representing the senior class as one of the Whing-Ding Dancers.
College
WSU:
I'm not going there with unique roommates as I was probably unique myself! So..
Fav classes: Shakespeare & Victorian Poetry, Fencing & Archery, Social Welfare. (An upgrade from my high school favs, huh?)
Fav activities & moments: football & basketball games-Go Cougs!; riding as a passenger on the back of a motorcycle through the wheat ...Expand for more
fields; washing test tubes at the Veterinary Science lab to make money; singing in the chorus group on stage as part of the cast for the Three Penny Opera put on by the Music department; eating french fries with mustard at the Cougar Cottage & eating ice cream at Ferdinand's; walking to the Arctic Circle for milk shakes on Sunday afternoons. And last of all, panty raids at the 13-floor Stephenson North dormitory where I lived. On occasional spring evenings, unruly guys would congregate at the street level below yelling and shining flashlights at our room windows trying to entice women to throw items of underwear out of their windows. After about 15 minutes of hooting, sirens, air horns,underwear flying out of windows and general pandemonium, the dorm mother would call the police to disperse the guys.
U of London:
Took this distance learning toward an MS in Organizational Behavior while I was, also, working a full-time job. Since the only interaction I had with fellow students & professors was over email or in letters, I'll list some of my favorite books (out of hundreds)for this class: Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases; Presidential Power, the Politics of Leadership; and The Change Masters by Kanter. I learned a lot! This was a great program! Unfortunately, I never quite finished the course as my mother had a serious heart attack and I needed to take care of her... But this was a great course of study! This course taught the psychology of how & why groups of people, especially big corporations, and major leaders, make their decisions. And, also, there were very interesting dissertations on how disasters like Three Mile Island came about by analyzing the human elements involved.
Workplace
My work life progressed from babysitting and waitressing to being a paralegal/caseworker/advocate with discrimination in employment cases for a non-profit organization.
Here was my progression... After waitressing, cashiering in a pharmacy and preparing books for the following year at Mt. Si High School, came washing test tubes for WSU Vet Science, typing and filing reports for Rural Sociology and filing and typing letters for WSU Curriculum Advisory. Summers, I was a sales clerk, a bookkeeper then a forest fire lookout for the US Forest Service.
After college, I got married and we started our family. While my husband was working his career, I took care of the kids and had part-time jobs, i.e. clerk in a health food store; daycare in my own home (that was a zoo!); bookkeeper at an HVAC shop; treasurer for a church and tutoring for adults & teens in spelling and grammar.
Gradually, I began volunteering by doing microfilming of documents for a non-profit. Once our youngest was in school my volunteering turned into a part-time job for this non-profit organization serving trusts and wills. From there, I got an administrative assistant job in a Public Affairs office. Over a year or so, that position worked into a staff position and there you are... I had a career! I was pretty much my own boss over the casework that I engaged in. I probably did more public speaking than I would have liked, but it all balanced out. The career was very rewarding. It was so engrossing and fun, it didn't even seem like a job!
At this time, both my husband and I consider ourselves retired. We travel when we can. We have some extended family living with us so we are never lonely. We are really enjoying our retirement!
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