Jackie Stearns Jenkins:
CLASS OF 1968
Meadowdale High SchoolClass of 1968
Dayton, OH
Wright State University - EducationClass of 1973
Dayton, OH
Miami - Jacobs CollegeClass of 1969
Dayton, OH
Jackie's Story
Life
My Biography -- Graduated from high school in June 1968. Spent summer working as a lifeguard at a YMCA pool. Attended Miami Jacobs Junior Business College for 1 qtr. Quit. Went to work in accounting office of a paper products company. Quit. Attended Wright State University majoring in Art Education with a minor in Rehabilitation Education. Got married to my sign language tutor in 1972. Still in college. Started student teaching found out I hated teaching. Quit. Divorced 1976. Remarried 1977 to harness horse trainer. Became 2nd trainer, bookkeeper, groom, homemaker and all that. Relationship went to crap when I had to take job working as administrative assistant to support the horses. Divorced 1989. Remarried, third and final time, Dec. 1990. Still married to same fellow - nice man, loves me as much as I love him. 1994 began attending massage therapy school in Lebanon, Ohio. October 1995 graduated and took state mecical board licensure exam. Passed. Opened therapeutic massage practice Feb. 1996. Been licensed massage therapist ever since. Have found life's calling and purpose to existence in this profession.
Never had childre...Expand for more
n. Thankful for that. Wouldn't have been a good way to raise children with all the divorces, etc.
Three years ago purchased first house ever. Like home ownership a lot. Beats the daylights out of renting!! Live in Bellefontaine, Ohio with loving husband, 2 cats, 2 dogs and wonderful neighbors.
Have gotten farther than I thought I would while in high school. Am doing what I want to do with my life, not what was scripted for me, or what was expected of me by family and friends. Am quite content with the expected and unexpected turns my life has had. Have learned much, enjoyed much, and lived like there's no turning back. Life has been one long and interesting meander, not a straight line path to anywhere special. That's what has made it so darned interesting...
School
I really didn't like high school. I always felt out of place and unwelcome. Looking back on high school from here, I am amazed I made it to adulthood with my sanity intact. Inside the unpopular girl I was then was one depressed mess who just wanted to feel like someone cared she was alive. Glad it is over, and that I moved on and found happiness. High school was horrid!
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