Lorie Bunyard:  

Glad to be back in Coos Bay! I have two daughters (Linnae, 33 and Rebecca, 28) and one granddaughter (love being a grandma!!), I homeschooled both girls through 12th grade. Linnae is now in Austin, TX, teaching harp and piano and Rebecca lives nearby in Coquille and is an excellent massage therapist. :) After high school, I spent a semester at OSU, but decided to return to Switzerland (I was an AFS summer student to Switzerland in 1970), where I worked in a hospital as an aide in Labor and Delivery. Now THAT was fun!! I spent 7 months working at the hospital, then spent three months as a student at L'Abri, a Christian school/community, just over the border from Switzerland into France. When I returned to the States, I began my journey to become a teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, graduating from OCE (now WOU) in the summer of 1977. I worked for the Southern Oregon ESD teaching a self-contained classroom in Grants Pass from 1977 until 1981, at which time I married James Kraemer. We lived in Cave Junction until 1985; moved to Applegate, had our first daughter in 1986, then moved to northern Idaho in the spring of 198...Expand for more