Nancy Norman:  

The day after graduating from Oxon Hill Senior High School I started my first job, working at the Washington Navy Yard as a clerk typist, GS-2, making minimum wage $3+ change, an hour. I had been accepted at Frostburg State College in Maryland, but after visiting and finding out I would not have on campus housing. I decided to work a year before going to college. Meanwhile I heard about Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, from a neighbor. After a visit, I found my college. I earned enough in one year to pay for one semester. Student loans got me through the next three years in addition to working at the Navy Yard ever summer and during Christmas (yes then we called it Christmas holidays back then). I earned my BS in education, from Sheherd College, now Shepherd University, majoring in health and physical education, minor in Library Science. I did my internship in Library Science in Hagerstown, Maryland, elementary physical education at Virginia Avenue Elementary School, Winchester, Virginia and secondary health and physical education at Handley High School, Winchester. I loved Handley. My supervising teacher was Mrs. Nikki Isherwood, a life long friend. After graduating I could not find a teaching position. I went back home and back to the Washington Navy Yard. They new me so well in Human Resources from summers and Christmas, and now I had a college degree so they hired me to work in Human Resources. I worked there for one year until there was an opening in the State Demonstration Physical Education Department at Handley High School. Back to Winchester, Virginia in 1973. In 1980 I packed up and left Handley to go to Tulsa, Ok to work with Madeline Manning Mims Ministries. I helped organize and handl...Expand for more