Kaye Matthes:  

Life Reader's Digest Condensed version: It took me moving from Birmingham, AL to Los Angeles, CA to meet someone from Fort Lee, NJ. We met in Chicago and got to know each other in New York. After living several years in Massachusetts we now live in Connecticut with our 2 grown sons. We are: Kaye, Curt, Kyle and Craig. Our lives seem to be centered around sports. Both boys play ice hockey, roller hockey, and baseball. My husband still plays men's league hockey. It's sort of like men's softball in the south: They are actually a men's beer league with a hockey problem. Then there are the trips to see the New York Rangers and The New York Mets. I'd love to hear from any of my old classmates. Workplace Right out of high school,I worked full time for a year and a half at Birmingham Trust National Bank in downtown Birmingham. I did this in order to pay for college, which I attended part-time for the last half year I was at BTNB. I had several jobs while continued I worked my way through school at UAB. Everything from working at a Teamsters office to gift wrap at Parisian at Christmas. After graduating I worked for a while as a temp at Bradley, Arant, Rose and White where my friend Cindy (Thompson)Owen was a paralegal. I then worked at Parisian in the Manager's training program. I worked at the Vestavia store, the corporate offices as an assistant buyer in Junior Dresses, and as an assistant department manager at Five Points West. I then went to work for View-Master toy company. I traveled in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, the panhandle of Florida, parts of Tennessee, and a couple of towns in Arkansas. After a year and a half, I was promoted to District manager of Southern California. My district also included parts of Nevada and Arizona. This is when I met the man who was to become my husband. We met briefly at a district managers meeting in Chicago. He had also recently been promote...Expand for more