Jacqueline Forsyth:  

After graduating from Williams High School, I attended Valparaiso University (Valpo) in Valparaiso, IN (approximately 50 miles west of Chicago) and graduated with a BS degree in Business Administration in 1978. I looked for a job in the Chicago area to be near to my boyfriend, Keith Forsyth,from Pittsburgh, PA who also attended Valpo. He had graduated two years earlier with a BS in Biology and Medical Technology. I found a job within a week at Mutual Trust Life Insurance Company in Oakbrook, IL as an Actuarial Calculator. On the drive from Burlington to Chicago with my belongings, we became engaged (in Frankfort, KY - where we stopped for the night). I married Keith back in Burlington in September 1979. We lived in the Chicago area (Woodridge, IL) for 1 1/2 years. When Keith's employer, Bio-Science Laboratories, decided to move into Chicago from the suburbs, Keith decided he would rather head south towards warmer weather than have to drive or move into Chicago. We had just lived through the worst winter Chicago had seen in 40 years and we were sick of below zero temperatures and tons of snow! Keith found a new position at ECU in Greenville, NC, in the Infectious Diseases department working for an MD. I worked for Allen-White, a small company that owned and operated motels (Holiday Inns) and fast-food restaurants (Hardees in FL). When I was laid-off two years later due to the company's financial instability, Keith once again decided to look for a job elsewhere. As he had heard that Houston had a huge Medical Center, he applied for a number of positions at Houston-area hospitals and arranged for a trip to Houston for the interviews. We drove down and within a week, Keith had found a job at Texas Children's Hospital as a Medical ...Expand for more