Dr. Mary Gasparro:  

"I was born at a hospital in St. Helens, England where my parents resided at the time. My mother was an American war bride, and my father an Air Force serviceman. My mother left us in 2008 and my father, who left us in 2010. He taught me everything I know. I was a drag racer, dancer, electrician, repaired autos, telephone wiring, repair plumbing problems with the loo, and I boxed with him (I was his sparring partner-he was an AF feather weight champion), and there are too many other things to list. I traveled to over 30 different countries with my parents and husband. My father retired from the AF after 28 years, when he received orders to go back to Vietnam for the fourth time. My four sisters are Linda born in England (now passed) Anne born in France, Corinne born in France, and the baby is Barbara, born in Illinois. I joined the CYA (Catholic Young Adults) while in the Philippines and in high school, where everyone was friendly. I learned of the Airmen's Club and started going there. I danced all night never getting off the dance floor. If my partner became tired he would have to find a replacement quickly. However, I was never short of dance partners nor suitors. (This always made me wonder why the boys and gals did not like me in high school). Jerry was my first suitor. On my 18th birthday, he gave me a bottle of Chanel perfume and asked for my hand in marriage. My parents said, "No" to him and several others. When our family returned back stateside to good old Keesler AFB I decided to try out the NCO Club. Here the same thing happened. I danced all night. Every Sunday morning the club would give everyone free breakfast. I had a small car and had my own key to my bedroom, so I would stay for the free breakfast. My parents trusted me implicitly and I never gave them reason not to. I met John at the NCO Club. He was in GEIA as was my father. My father sent him to Germany for 6 months. I wrote to him faithfully everyday without fail. While John was away, I met my future husband, Paul in March of 1971. I ran the Catholic Folk Mass group on Keesler AFB. Paul walked in one night during a practice, sat in one of our metal seats. When I turned around, I saw him with his sleeves rolled up, beautiful eyes I wanted to sink into, charming, and as I found out later, he could make me laugh. Paul and I were married on December 18, of 1971. In September of 1972, Mary Louise, our first daughter was born in Maryland. Mary Louise learned to speak five different languages and earned two bachelors in English and foreign languages. She is currently looking for a school to attend for holistic medicine. Mary Louise is now a master Reiki teacher. She has become great at knowing what by-products are in foods and other items. I can hand her a bottle of vitamins and she will tell me if the pills are full of chalk, shampoo, antifreeze, wood pulp, and just about anything else. I do not want any of that junk in my pills! Our son Paul was born in 1975, (was murdered 2019) while we were stationed in Denver, Colorado, at Buckley Air National Guard Base (now an AFB). Young Paul also has several degreesand an IQ of 169. If you go to our site, you can see what a great job he did in building a recording studio, on his own. We out grew our original studio. Therefore, we had to find a new location in down town Atlanta. If you go to eoadigital.com or just type his name in your browser, all kinds of things come up. Please make sure you type eoadigital otherwise you get EOS who have nothing to do with us. The studio is booked solid with many famous people. He was also shooting movies. His web site is eoadigital dot com---producer,-engineer,-mixer. We are on YouTube and right now we have Teddy Bishop renting part of our studio; wow, he is big in the industry and many other famous people like Ludacris. In 1977, while stationed in the outback of Australia, my husband delivered our third child Elizabeth. In the outback, the communication was not the best. The Dr. did not take me serious when I said, "The baby is coming". He said, "You have hours yet" And left the village. Well, 10 minutes later my husband delivered our 3rd child. Good thing he had been an enlisted Navy corpsman. She grew up as we moved around the world and earned a degree in Networking, is now a regional manager for large apartment complexes, and has her real estate license. Jonas and our youngest, Elizabeth, married on Dec 18, 2004. Jonas and Elizabeth are very happy and have two beautiful sons. My husband, Paul was commissioned as an Air Force officer, we returned to Colorado Springs in 1982, where he and I also opened a very successful computer store. In 1986, our family went to Myrtle Beach AFB, where I was the welfare chairperson, membership chairperson, vice-president, family services coordinator, and Red Cross coordinator. My eldest daughter graduated high school at Myrtle Beach where I was also a high school counselor. While stationed there, my husband received a very prestigious award: top Air Force officer of the year and had 3 of his enlisted personnel promoted on the spot in the field for their part in an effort that won the unit a top award from TAC. That had not been heard of since WW2. The AF had tried to consolidate 3 shops for many years and my husband and his folks were able to obtain their goal in just two years. I earned my bachelors degree in psychology in 1992 and assisted my husband in teaching at different colleges. In 1993, after our son's graduation, from Biloxi High School, we moved on to the Pentagon, where we both worked. While in the AF, my husband taught for Embry-Riddle University, St. Leo, and several other colleges. In the AF he taught many different places. For example, while we were stationed at Keesler, he taught in the Basic Communications Officer Training and Advanced Communications Officer Training Courses (BCOT & ACOT). In the first year he took all the awards for best instructor. Finally the upper brass said, "They were doing away with the program". In 1994 we went north to the Pentagon. We were there less than a year. Then out of the blue, came a call from an old friend asking Paul to retire and to come be a director at a college in Tyler, Texas. After a lot of thought, he retired after 23 years, as an Air Force Officer (major) and took the job. He worked his way up through the college arena. The first job he landed was in Tyler, Texas as Director and was later promoted to Managing Director of the computer side of academics. Our youngest daughter graduated high school there in 1995. I joined the local high school staff, so we could spend lunches together. My husband also completed his doctorate in Higher Education in 1997. The campus had no upward mobility since the college had no vice presidents (another long story, but the week he was to start working there, all the Vice Presidents but one were fired. The one left standing was made president and Paul worked for him for a...Expand for more