Karen Reed:  

After our graduation from high school in 1973, I went to the University of Maryland, but left after 1 semester for various reasons. I then went to The Berkeley School in East Orange(secretarial sciences, they called my major then!) for a year. It was perfect for me. After that I got a job as an administrative assistant, which is what I've done for the past 30 years (in various places). I do like doing that --- I feel I'm perfectly suited to it. Several of my jobs were better than the others, and I spent most of my time at those companies where I absolutely loved my jobs, but it was also able to get a job easily when Milt and I moved around the eastern seacoast. Milt and I got married in October 1975. We started dating in between my junior and senior years at MHHS, and have been married for 34 years! Milt graduated from MHHS in 1970, and he knew my brother before he knew me (did sports together). Milt and I met at Rockaway Sales, when he and I both worked there. A year after we got married, we moved to Quincy, MA, and spent a year there for Milt's schooling (Eastern Nazarene College). Then we moved back to NJ (Lafayette, near Sparta and Newton, NJ) in 1977, and we had our first daughter Rachel in February 1979. We then bought a house in Warwick, NY, and spent a year there. Then we moved to Melbourne, Florida (for Milt's work) and lived there for 7-1/2 years. Although we absolutely loved the environment in Florida and made many good friends there, we wanted to come back to the Northeast (because of the less-than-wonderful educational system in Fla for Rachel, and because we missed our families and got tired of taking our vacations as 'obligations' to come home to NJ to visit). In ...Expand for more