Holly Irvin:  

CLASS OF 1989
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Pittsburgh, PA

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I hope I am a different, better person 20 years later! So, 1989, graduated SHS & started at Penn State Behrend in Electrical Engineering. 2 yrs of that & I changed majors to Special Education. 2 more years in the woods up there in Erie, which I absolutely loved. (Sorry, Heather Kissel, that you did not love it as much!) Then 2 yrs at Penn State, State College. Nine of us lived at 124 N. Patterson St. & it was amazing-- mountain biking, hiking, caving, good times, making lifelong friends. Student teaching in Norristown, PA, living with Gina's family (thank you, Gina's family) A week in Nags Head, NC with friends after graduation, including adventures such as riding airplanes over Hatteras, Mike firewalking, and driving a minivan on the beach Moved back to parents' house in Allison Park Worked as a special education aide at Beatty Tech Traveled around Victoria, Australia for a month in 1997 Moved to Boston area (Stacy Kissel invited me to come to be her roommate up here) Taught special education at a Lexington, MA middle school, then Lexington High School Master's in Special Education from Framingham State College because it was cheap! Currently teach at Brookline High School, Brookline, MA Went to Honduras with Stacy Kissel; we were guest judges at a Honduran school's science fair! We rode horses in the mountains for...Expand for more
2 days with our awesome soft-spoken, storytelling guide Miguel Go to the Florida Keys every 2 yrs or so-- I love swimming with tarpon next to Fort Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas! Married Wally Young (Holly & Wally!) in 2006 (but I'm still Holly Irvin). We have 2 kids, I mean CATS-- bengal cats, with beautiful orange glittery fur & leopard spots. I visit college friends regularly in DC, Titusville, Phila, and Switzerland! I went to Iceland for 9 days in Oct. 2007 to see the Northern Lights. It rained practically the whole time, but it was cool anyway. Meet up with parents & my sister's family every year for 2 weeks in July in Corolla, NC (Outer Banks) Into power yoga (90 min heated) Tried blacksmithing, rowing/crew (6 weeks one summer, every morning at 5:30), dragonboating, trapeze (at Jordan's Furniture store!), horse riding lessons Dye my hair red sometimes (Natural Instincts, Cinnaberry) Love Acadia National Park in Maine (hiking the Beehive mountain is excellent, with the ocean at your back, with hand-over-hand ladder-climbing) Favorite foods are spinach & chile rellenos (I'm vegetarian) I visit my sister's family in Titusville about 6 times a year, but otherwise, I backpack in the White Mountains in NH or go the the Massachusetts beaches when I am not doing schoolwork. I might like to be a park ranger someday.
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