Melissa Pacheco:  

my story was downloaded from Facebook- so I guess I need to change it. Hi Everyone- it was great to see some of your updates on classmates too! made me think we need another reunion! :) After graduation I went to BCC- I wanted to be a paralegal...landed up loving accounting (who says that :P) I transferred to UMass Dartmouth where I earned a Bachelors in Accounting. I starting working at UMass Dartmouth the summer after graduation and a job opened up; almost 20 years later, and a few different job positions, I am still there. I now work in the college I graduated from, the Charlton College of Business. I help students and the business community connect through a number of different venues. I also earned my MBA in 2007. I married my prom date- and the person most of you will remember more then me :) Joe Pacheco, in 1998. Our classmate, Wayne Pacheco's older (or Joe would try to say younger) brother. My story gets a bit deep here, our first daughter Katelyn died at 12 days old in 2002. She changed my life. 2002-2004 were not good years for us. I did find something I didn't really have in school- a close personal relationship with Christ- that may seem strange but my faith really helped me during those very dark days (and still does today). (see told you it would be deep for a bit- ok, a...Expand for more