Lee Marcus (Collins):
CLASS OF 1948
Wightman SchoolClass of 1948
Pittsburgh, PA
Allegany High SchoolClass of 1952
Cumberland, MD
Lee's Story
Dear classmates at Allegany High School, Class of 1952,
I'm not sure if your remember me in our graduating class of Allegany High School in 1952. I was Lee Joanne Marcus, and in February 1951 my father moved our family to Cumberland so he could manage Freedlander's Department Store. He did that for only a little over a year and in June, 1952, after my graduation, we all moved to Oak Park, Illinois.
I went to the College of Wooster in Ohio where I met my husband, Dan Collins, who came from Barnesville, Ohio. I majored in Sociology and got a teaching certificate. I later completed a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and a doctorate from Rutgers University. I taught in eleven different school districts in seven different states and retired a...Expand for more
s Professor Emerita of Education from Central College in Pella, Iowa, where I still live.
In 2009, I went to Writers' Workshops at the University of Iowa and have published, in 2013, my debut novel, Too Much Left Unsaid. Because the book tells how the lives of ordinary people in a small town in Ohio changed in the mid-twentieth century because of events we all lived through, I think you would enjoy reading my novel.
Too Much Left Unsaid is available in paperback and eBook format from Amazon and Barnes and Noble and can be ordered through independent book stores. You could even ask your library to get a copy for you to read. I hope you will consider reading the book and letting me know what you think of it. Maybe we can get reacquainted at this late date.
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