Sharon Thompson:  

Here's my story, for all my old friends, acquaintances, and anyone who wants to know. Simple as I can make the last 40 some odd years...more to follow sometime after I figure out how to clone myself...kidding. For those of you RHS class of '71 graduates who wonder who I am, and didn't know me from either the Village School or the Junior High, it's because I went away to boarding school in NH. Skipped my freshman year up there, so would have been class of '70...had I actually graduated, which I didn't; something about money/costs...I don't remember. Yes, that's right...I was a high school dropout! Anyway, when I came back to RHS, they took one look at my classical education from the (non-Regent classes) Waldorf boarding school, and wanted to put me back as a sophomore, after I'd completed my sophomore and junior years up in NH, had read the classics, was fluent in French, etc., etc...so I quit (got my G.E.D. at 18) and started working in the city, for one of the biggest press agents on Broadway. I got paid nearly nothing for answering the phones and making the appointments, but wow, what a great experience. Talk about being spoiled; I had the best seats in the house every nite of the week for free...what a treat. I flipped out the first time I actually had to pay! I worked for several years as a secretary/administrative assistant (still don't admit that I ever knew shorthand...the typing's hard to keep secret) before I worked my way into being a fully matriculated student at St. John's, where I did my first two years as a chemistry major. Started in '76. Got married in '78, had my son in '79, took four years off to be a Mama, then got my B.S. in pharmacy in '85. Got separated in '84 and divorced in '86. Went right into working the M.A.S.H. units in hospital practice for years until I burned out...between the shift work, being a single mom, and being on the code and trauma teams, covering ...Expand for more