Cynthia Burkert:
CLASS OF 1970
Lyons Township High SchoolClass of 1970
La grange, IL
Antioch High SchoolClass of 1970
Antioch, CA
McClure Junior High SchoolClass of 1966
Western springs, IL
Park Junior High SchoolClass of 1966
Antioch, CA
Bidwell Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Antioch, CA
Cynthia's Story
After LTHS, I went to U of I, then U of Texas. Earned a Journalism degree, married, and moved to Virginia. Worked for the Navy, had two babies (Drew 29 and Ellen 27), stayed home and ran the bake sale. Got divorced, and went back to work for the US Dept of the Interior managing computers, then managing people managing computers. Met Jack, married in 1995, moved to Baltimore, went to Wesley Seminary 1999-2003, and now I'm an ordained elder (pastor) in the United Methodist Church. I've served churches on the Eastern Shore of MD, in Delaware, and now in Baltimore, and I'm working on a doctor of ministry. We own a 110 yr old farmhouse on the Eastern Shore that we conti...Expand for more
nually renovate, which is where I garden and paint. My kids are a university administrator and a social worker, and my stepsons are retired military and a civilian intelligence worker. Life is really, really good - rich and full. I had no idea how clueless I was in high school until about 1990! If I'd had a clue, I'd have become a French teacher, but since all the teachers at LTHS were native French speakers, I thought I was unqualified. Now I teach other things, and travel to France when I can. Latest trip was 2 weeks across Canada by rail and car. Next year I'm going to China with two roommates from U of I and several families with adoptive Chinese daughters.
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