Mary Andrews:  

School After living and going to school most of my life in South Dakota, we moved to Kansas for my dad's job in about 1964. I went to the great Lawrence High School for a couple of years until my dad had a serious heart attack and had to take early (at age 45!) retirement. We then moved to Texas middle of my junior year to be near my mom's family. I graduated from high school in Woodville...what a change! Moving from a school where there were probably 500 or more in my CLASS to one where there probably weren't that many kids in the whole school (and I mean K-12). That may be a slight exaggeration, but there were only about 50 in our graduating class of 1967. The kids there were kind to this shy yankee girl who remained scared that her dad was about to die (which he eventually did at age 79!). College Having moved to East Texas mid-way of high school junior year, I graduated from Kirby High School in Woodville and my parents gave me the choice of going 50 miles south to Lamar Univ. in Beaumont or 50 miles north to Stephen F. Austin St. Univ. in Nacogdoches. I chose SFA because 1. I didn't know I HAD more than 2 choices, and 2. I thought Beaumont... with its oil & gas refineries and other industries...was ugly & stank. Whereas, SFA was a pretty campus in the piney woods. I went there alone, knowing no one, made lots of friends, worked hard the first year. Which was lucky because I totally goofed off the next 2 years, but managed to never drop below a 2.0 overall and eventually got busy again and graduated with a...Expand for more