Norma White:
CLASS OF 1969
Crawford High SchoolClass of 1969
San diego, CA
Norma's Story
UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM...
Life
I am now a statistic: RETIRED!!! Going to gym for Tai Chi and Zumba, doing projects around house and fitting in with neighbors who are also retired. I have lots to keep busy with but plan to work part time for extras!
Before retirement I worked at a Casino Resort in Laughlin Nevada, close to the border of California, Arizona and Nevada, on the Colorado River. Laughlin is the new Las Vegas, we have all they do only we have the river to enjoy too. Coming this fall on TV will be a series: VIVA LAUGHLIN! Where you can see our town in all it's glory!!! Or at least the way Hollywood perceives it! I have been there since 9/91 and have worked in my current job for about 12 of those years. I have a stress free job as supervisor of one other employee serving both the company and the guests as the Business Center / Mail Room.
86 - 91 I was a wife, secretary, full staff for a hearing aid specialist who decided to leave me for MONEY. Before I met Mr Wonderful I was a single mom of a 6 year old, when he left us I was a single mom of a 10 year old and a 2 year old - both boys. The oldest is in the Army (like mom like son) a Sergeant E-5 (like I was)and currently preparing for deployment for his second tour of Iraq. His brother is a Senior in High School and an Eagle Scout candidate in Boy Scouts. I was his den leader and Cub Master when he was a Cub Scout, that was a fun experience - and my military experience came in handy controlling 90 young boys and their siblings!
Before Mr Wonderful I worked at Farmer Brothers Coffee company in Torrance California...83-86.
75 - 82 I was a Sgt E-5 in the Army as a TeleCommunications specialist, stationed in Ft Lewis Washington and Stuttgart Germany (78-82) where my first born son was born.
72 -75 I was a civilian working in Convelescent Homes and as a private nurse for my grandmother who suffered a stroke in 73.
69 - 72 I was a Specialist E-4 in the Army Medical Corps stationed at Ft Sam Houston delivering babies.
I didn't graduate as a Crawford Colt, I left San Diego in the 11th grade when my mother moved us to Los Angeles where the job market was better for her. I attended Narbonne High in Harbor City for a short time but didn't like it there and got my GED through the Army Recruiters.
I loved my military career, wish I had stayed longer but I had a young son and decided I should give civilian life a try...that is my one regret in life and I kick myself almost daily for that move. But if I hadn't taken the path I did I wouldn't have my second son, the job I like...etc.
As you can see I love to write, I write as a hobby. Right now I have about 14 romance novels in various stages of completion. They are like kids, you don't want them to grow up and move away...maybe when the nest is empty I will polish them off and use them as supplement to my retirement. I also write poetry and have over 90 poems, a couple got published.
Well, maybe I will go to the school part of the bios and continue there. Read on...
School
In school I was pretty much invisible. I hung out with a small group of girls and had little to say to anyone. I was painfully shy. I loved going to the pep rallies and football and basketball games.
I am not sure if my photo is in any yearbooks from Crawford. I don't remember getting it taken in the 10th grade and didn't buy the yearbook. I know I didn't get it taken in the 11th grade.
I attended Horace Mann Jr High 63-66 and am in all three of those yearbooks.
Aside from going to football and basketball games and cheering my lungs out I don't have a lot of funny, happy or crazy memories.
I attended a lot of TV8 Dancetime shows and had favorite bands...music from that era is still my favorite.
Not much more to say about High School.
College
My college was life in general and Military life was my major.
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UPDATE: 7 April 2009
My son Todd is back from his second tour in Iraq and about to be engaged to a wonderful girl. They will be living in Colorado Springs Colorado while he continues in the Army. He just passed his 6th year in February and right now they plan to be career military.
My son Hoot has graduated High School (2008) and received his Eagle Rank the night after graduation. With the economy being like it is there aren't a lot of job opportunities and I can't afford to send him to college so he is looking into...hold on...maybe you should sit down...the Army!! He is preparing by running 2 miles (in under 18 minutes) on M/W/F and doing pushups and situps on the off days...resting on Sunday of course. Three times a week he attends a martial arts self defense class for stamina and coordiantion. He is aiming at going Special Forces.
AND THEN ME...I am still at the Aquarius, still happily employed, we had a huge series of lay offs but they feel that they have cut back all they needed to and will probably start rehiring soon as business picks up. We are getting ready for the annual LAUGHLIN RIVER RUN...used to be called: HARLEY WEEKEND until the P/C types felt that Yahama riders would be offended... Close to 100,000 bikers come in to town on or about 22 April and leave on the 26th/27th...basic...Expand for more
ally the last Wednesday thru Sunday of April every year. Some people await the Robins to hearld in spring...we get the motorcycles cruising up and down the Highway. We work 6 days straight in my department...other departments do a lot more prep than we do and then have to hussle more than we do. Security goes on 12 hour shifts for 6+ days. But like Christmas it only happens once a year. (If you don't count the week that the INTERNATIONAL U.F.O. CONFERENCE is here in February/March. Yes - UFO - outer space, aliens. Mostly scientists and a few radicals!)
Sometime about the end of summer I will probably be facing the inevitable empty nest...I am looking forward to it because it will signal that I have completed my assignment of getting my boys into society. But I dread being in a good sized house, listening to creaks and moans...coming from both the house AND ME! LOL. I will probably spend more time writing on my novels...lets make that a definite: I will be cranking out novels. I also am hoping that now I can concentrate some ME TIME and find someone to spend some sunrises and sunsets with. I doubt that I will move but if I do it would probably be to be closer to one or both of the boys. Todd showed me some nice places near Colorado Springs where I could set up a shop if I knew what I would be happy doing. Or I might be given the opportunity to be a live-in Grandmum/Nanny. My soon to be daughter-in-law is a business woman, owns several bars in several states: Chicago and New York to name a couple cities. She does most of her managing via internet and her VPs, lawyers, managers, etc but has to travel about quarterly to check on things. She also has a family estate in England and one in France that she goes to for holidays and such. I would probably travel with her and the babies. I wouldn't mind that at all. I have the qualifications and think it would be fun. But the offer hasn't come about yet and I do want to give them time to be a family first.
Right now I have 12036, 31, 27 characters remaing...I just went back to the Q&A portion - the answers are sooo limited. Like "spying on nature", we have lots of nature and I watch it when I can: quail, road runners, nuthatchers, and in the middle of the night some skunk or another lets their presence be known Olfactorily...pwhew. I have a smoking Mulberry tree...during the spring it makes perfect smoke rings with it's pollen. I like to sit back and enjoy nature: listen to babbling brooks, crashing waves, breeze in the trees. I love to blow soap bubbles and watch where they go...the stick to trees and ground when it has rained or snowed!! I like to hide somewhere and blow bubbles out across a path and watch people notice them...cats and dogs chase them, kids giggle at them. I like to camp...but my bones have begun to protest a lot. I love to sit around a camp fire and smell the smoke in clothing...Roasting Marshmallows! I believe that you should rough it when you camp out but do like the portapots - just no electrical gadgets, etc. I like to veg out in front of the TV and will watch a lot of different things. Good at Jeopardy...Who Wants to Be a Milliaonaire...One vs 100...etc. Like court shows...Judge shows, crime dramas...comedies. But I also like to turn off the tv and play board games and card games. One night a month I like to turn off all but the essential electricity - I call it SCREW MEC NIGHT...and play games by candle light...jigsaw puzzles but nothing over 750 pieces. I do word games in books...word search, cryptograms, etc. Don't much like logic ones. I play Brain Age.
OH! I live in a place where you can see the night time sky very well and the year that Haley's Comet was present I would wake up very early in the morning - at least an hour before sunrise, make a cup of Cafe Vienna (for the moments of your life) and go outside and sit and commune with the comet. We would start our morning together...it was like we were sharing millions of years in just an hour's time. I missed that ritual for several weeks and it is still a fond memory.
Since starting with Classmates I have reconnected with several class mates. I got on trying to find one person that I spent a lot of time with - Martie - we were close for several years and then lost track of each other. She married into the Navy and raised 3 boys, I was Army...so we both traveled a lot. The last time I had seen her my oldest was 2 1/2, her youngest was 2. I found her just about a year ago and the 23rd of March she came to visit me. It was great!!! We spent a week making up for lost time.
While I was trying to find Martie I reconnected with another good friend, Kris, she and I used to attend TV8 Dancetime together. We saw Sonny and Cher in their early Caveman days. The Turtles, Sam the Sham and the Pharohs, Ian Whitcomb, Herman's Hermits and many more when they were just starting out.
2016 Just reconnected with Classmates. Not much new...Todd never married, he is now an E-7 in the Army. Hoot joined the Army and is now an E-5, he married and I am now the grandmother of a one year old boy. Other than that life just goes on and on...
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