Susan Pascar :  

Life After high school and art school I worked as a commercial artist in the Boston area. In 1969 I met and married(11/16/69)my hubby Sheldon. I "burned the midnight oil" freelancing from home while raising our three great kids: Joanne Belinda(12/70) who's an Occupational Therapist in a public school system outside of Boston, Rory Joel(12/73) who's in Hotel Management in Chicago, and Rachel Joy(4/76)/ who's a Pediatric Unit Coordinator at a large Boston hospital. Our two younger kids presented us with our first grandchildren, Maya Rose in 2007 and Amelia Grace in 2009, and our oldest Joanne finally got married this past August 21st, 2010 after a two-year engagement. The wedding was out in the countryside of Athol, MA, followed by the reception held in a beautiful medieval tent where a grand buffet fed the 140-150 guests, and a live band played while people danced away the hours until midnight. They honeymooned in Nassau, Grand Bahama and returned home to reside in Newton, MA. After 30 years as renters, we finally purchased our own home in 1999 on the Lynn-Salem line. We resided in Winthrop for 24 years and the Berkshires for 5. Unfortunately, unlike us always living in a 7 1/2 to 8-room apartment when we rented, our own first-floor apartment of the 3-family house we own has only 5 rooms and about half our belongings are still packed in boxes in the basement. Our house was built somewhere between 1899 and 1901, since different old city documents don't "jive" on the same date, so the basement cannot be renovated to accommodate additional rooms. Oh well, it's OUR home sweet home! My husband is a first cook for a nursing home in Rockport, MA. He left the restaurant business in 1979 (at it since age 14) as a manager of Ken's at Copley, which most of you probably remember in Copley Square. He took his first nursing home job as assistant in a kitchen at a nursing home in Winthrop and has been in that field since then. Having moved up to the position of "Food Seervice Director" of both kitchen and diningroom facilities about twelve years ago, he became disillusioned and tired of dealing with "corporate aggravation and B.S. So after 6 years at his current place of employment, he's now "first cook" preparing meals for the residents, loves it and they love his cookin!, While not presently working, I keep busy w/family, friends, the house, gardening, and my passion and main interest, folkmusic, attending local gigs, concerts and festivals. My number one interest right now is taking care of Rachel's daughter Maya Rose on the days she's not in day care, and I love it! She's petite, adorable, bright and so animated. Others interests are oldies music, the arts, writing, occasional reading, the computer, bike riding, walking, raising money for a diabetes cure at the ADA's Boston walk every year. I hope one day to return to college to finish getting a degree in the arts field. I look forward to our next class reunion, to seeing former classmates and old friends, and exchanging stories. A few accidents along the way kept me from goi...Expand for more