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Even though I graduated from Sacramento High School, Grant was always my go-to school because I was there for three years. I started working as a model for Channel 40 in my Junior year. After graduating from high school I traveled to New Jersey where I had two children, a son (Richard) and a daughter (Debra), and worked as a secretary for Fishback and Moore Tellepsen Construction Company. Shortly after Debbie was born I returned to Sacramento and worked in my Mother's Restaurant, Tiny's, on Fulton Avenue near California State University Sacramento (CSUS), then at McClellan Air Force Base as a secretary. My son, Alan Kent, was born in 1962. A couple years later I joined my husband at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas where he worked as a Logistics Officer for five years. We returned to Sacramento where I attended American River College, transferred to CSUS, graduated in 1977 and started working at Internal Revenue as a Revenue Agent. I was only the second female Revenue Agent and the only female Revenue Agent in Sacramento at that time. I was promoted to a grade 11. I was nominated for and received the Federal Woman of the Year Award. The fact that I received that award over a female fighter pilot really surprised me. They said the reason I received the award was because I was instrumental in recruiting and bringing other women into the higher levels of government work. At that time there were not higher grades I could hope for in Sacramento. When the Interior Department offered me a grade 12 I readily accepted. Soon after the Air Force offered me a grade 13...Expand for more