Barbara Sollinger:  

10/11/2008 Last edit on 3/21/2021 Good Grief, Charlie Brown, can it really be 67 yrs since DHS? So much has changed. I was thinking of those days and for some reason thought about our student parking area compared to the huge student parking *lots* these days. Here in NC, most students have cars. I remember DHS days fondly as we were blessed to be growing up at a great time, although we were totally oblivious to it. No drugs, few drop-outs, relatively low crime. We could walk around in my Riverdale neighborhood at night without concern. I am so glad I lived in the "Happy Days" that were the 50's. ... but there were those bomb shelters!! Once I left Dedham, I never looked back. I graduated from 3yr Nursing School in New York '61, married my soul mate in '60 (also a nursing student) I met there, and had 3 great kids. My spouse and I went on to become Nurse Anesthetists and we lived most of the time in Alabama where we raised our 3 kids on a big lake. Linda. our oldest, is a PharmD, married with 1 child who just had a little girl, so now I am a Great Grandmother ... YUK! Linda works at local Hosp. Our son, Bob left his job as a planner at Cat to work for Brunswick Div, building boats in Wilmington. NC ..his dream job. He was married to a Duke Lifeflight nurse he met in college. She was tragically killed when her chopper went down during a mission.on 9/08/2017. I loved her dearly. Jean Marie is an accountant with 3 kids, married to a Fireman. We moved to NC, spouses' birth place, in '86...Expand for more