Vinetta Suzettis:
CLASS OF 1965
State College Area High SchoolClass of 1965
State college, PA
Vinetta's Story
In high school, I was known as Jean Hale. I tried to use my first name, but a boy who had gone to school with me for years, piped up in English class to tell the teacher my name was Jean. (I usually tell this story with his name, but today, I have forgotten it....call me in a few and I'll remember it.10 minutes later, Tommy Fortunato-remember?)
I went to college in Hiram, OH- majored in French and El . ed. I went abroad my senior year to Nantes, France: got married, divorced. I came back to Penn State and got my MA in French; then, 3 years in Springfield, MO at SMSU as an instructor of French. Then, career change, I ended up at the Bank of California, San Francisco, working in the foreign exchange trading dept. of the International and Investments d...Expand for more
ivisions. Best job I ever had, until all the mergers took place. The bank now goes by Union Bank, owned by Japanese banks. So, I went back to teaching: infants through 2 years old. I enjoyed the children very much. In 2011, I retired. Now I don't have to force myself to get up and go to work ever day! Yeah! Only problem is the money-what else is new? My husband and I now live a few miles south of Yosemite National Park. We're getting used to the climate change and not having to go to work every day. The Bay Area was humid and cool, even in the foothill here it gets to 100 degrees in the summer and is dry.
But, here we could afford to get the house we had dreamed of. Bye-bye apartment living: turn the TV up loud so we can hear it and no one complains.
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