Joyce Greer:  

I wasn't in one of the popular crowds in high-school, but that was ok because I still had a group of good friends. Susan Smith, Martha Louise Campbell, Janet Rorex, Pat Albertson, Cecil Blankenship (class of '66), Gordon Finch and others. After graduation I wasn't one of the lucky ones who was headed off for college - I was headed off for a full-time job. But in the Spring of 1968 I took a course in IBM Keypunch (what an old term for data entry) and lucked into a full-time position at Moore's Building Supplies Corporate Offices - we were located on Franklin Road right next door to Burger King. Fortunately I was able to move up quickly and shortly became the Supervisor of the second shift Data Entry department. After our company was bought out by a larger company in Boston, MA I worked there for several months training their employees on our computer system and then returned to Roanoke. I married the boy-next-door in 1971 and luckily I am still married to the same wonder guy - Roy Greer. No, you don't know him, he was from down in Wythe County and moved in with his sister, who lived next door to my parents. So I really did marry the boy-next-door. We have three great children, Michael, Matthew and Megan, who all live in the Roanoke area. I have one genuis grandson, Brody who is almost 6 years old and of course puts the sparkle in my life as a grandmother. I work for Old Dominion University as their Distance Learning Assistant Site Director on the campus of Virginia Western Community College. I have been employed at ODU since 1996 when I finally completed an Associates Degree. I love my job and I am currently working to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Professional Writing at ODU. Never too late to get an education! My goal is to complete my degree by the time I retire, which will be in about 3 more years. That's pretty much me in a nut...Expand for more