Michele (Mickey) Clark (Schneider):  

Have just found this site; hope to catch up with my classmates! Have 2 late husbands & present hubby of almost 40 years. We raised my 2 sons & his 4 daughters in our small Victorian town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a very small early 1900’s tourist town on the National Historic Register...No neon, No traffic lights!! Remember when Naperville only had 3?! Lol! Anyway, we have 17 grandkids & 7 great grands!! I’ve owned my own restaurant, been GM over 5 tourist shops for 15 years, represented all the downtown tourist businesses to City Council for 3 years, & then became a Councilwoman for these last 12 years. I have decided to retire at the end of this term in December. After graduating in ‘68, I moved to Washington, D.C. for the prime protest years & to go to George Washington University nights, while supporting myself working in the second largest savings & loans in D.C. Remember those? 😉 As the head teller, I made a whopping $6,000 a YEAR, as opposed to the newest hired male teller (with NO experience) making $9,000 a year to start!! Yep, the protest years, bra burning, etc., etc... While there, I got very heavily into politics; not as a politician but into the knowledge of & understanding of, politics as a whole. This was facilitated by my ties to the Kennedy family & my Embassy clearance thru the FBI. 50 years later, I still have ties all over the world! I ran our local election polls here in Eureka for 22 years, until the state voted red in 2016, which was the first time since about 1823!! My older son owned his own business & is an EMT/firefighter in a nearby town. My younger son continued the family heritage & served in the Marine Corp for 20 years, including Iraq & Afghanistan. He’s the 11th generation Marine. Before going to Iraq, my dad told him about serving in WWII, being part of Iwo Jima ...Expand for more