Jane Hooker Brown:  

Life After graduating from University of Michigan in '58 I married Al Brown, a Michigan native and classmate. I taught kindergarten one year while he worked for Bendix in Ann Arbor for several years. We then moved to Baltimore where he worked for Westinghouse. By then we had two daughters, Jennifer now 48 and Lisa now 49. A few years thereafter we moved to Clearwater FL where Al worked for Honeywell continuing his career in aerospace software engineering. I stayed home with the kids until 1975 when Lisa started high school and Jennifer was in middle school. I then did what had been in the back of my head a good part of my life and went to law school at Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg to which I commuted daily. After graduating in May '77. I was in private practice for almost three years while I pined for the courtroom. That goal was satisfied when I hired on with the Office of the Public Defender. There I discovered a taste for the demanding competition of trial practice and loved it. In the meantime the girls completed their educations. They have had successful careers. Jennifer is an occupational therapist and now director of rehab at City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles and Lisa manages software licensing at the University of Rochester. Lisa is the single mom of twin 17 year old boys and a daughter who is 14 going on 19. Al was eligible for early retirement after 27.5 years at Honeywell and I was vested with the state after only 10 so we retired in '91. Having a dog again and being able to have some privacy was high on our retirement list. We'd vacationed in the mountains of western NC for a number of years and bought property here wh...Expand for more