Tamara DeMasters:  

CLASS OF 1984
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Porterville, CA
Fresno, CA
Monache High SchoolClass of 1984
Porterville, CA
Porterville, CA
Porterville, CA

Tamara's Story

Life Well let me see ... This may come as a surprise to many of my classmates but I have been clean and sober since April 2001. I moved to Lemoore in October 2002 and currently live in a house with my brother, 4 of his daughters, and my son. We are all adjusting to our new family and things are good. If someone had asked me when I graduated from high school what I'd be doing in 20+ years I'm sure I wouldn't have said this! I like my life, it is really good. I live in a nice house, I have a great job, and my family is healthy. I feel very lucky. School When I think about high school so many things come to mind ... mostly the friends. I haven't seen or spoken to anyone from high school in more than 6 years now. Even the closest of them. So many teachers: Buck, Tiny, Mr. Boyer, Mr. Nuno, Mr. Davis, Mrs. Brown, Mr. Davenport (even though he hated me), Miss Enos, and wow so many more. Friday night football games, friday night dances, sneakin out of the dance to go over to the softball field to smoke weed and drink beer, friday night keggers in some orange grove, and WAY TOO MANY PARTIES to count. Student council 1983 - 84. Does anyone remember that dumpster behind the cafeteria, near the snack bar, that had 1984 painted on the side of it our freshman year? I just new one of those goat ropers was gonna grab me up and I was goin in head first! And I don't know about anyone else but my freshman year the senior guys looked so grown, they were men, and I remember thinkin "damn I can't wait to be a senior!" then I was a senior and I looked around and thought "damn, what happened to all the senior men? all I see are the same boys I've always known" ha ha ha, perception is a trip. Workplace Hmm ... I had a couple of jobs while in college: cook at the residence dining hall (dorm cafeteria), server a...Expand for more
t sorority (weekly formal dinner), McDonald's, cashier at Shop-n-Go. After I graduated in Aug 1989 I moved back to Porterville and I got a job at Sierra Minit Mart in Terra Bella until I got my emergency credential and substitute taught for about 4 years. I went back to school after 2 years of substitute teaching and got my credential while I substituted and worked nights at my step-mothers care home for developmentally disabled adults. 1996 - 1997 I worked for KTAAA as a secretary/receptionist in the office pool. 1997 - 2001 I didn't work because I was high ... In 2001 I went to rehab and got clean and in November 2001 I started volunteering at the PAAR Center Women's program, in May 2002 I became employed there and worked in both the men's and women's programs until Sept 2002. In October 2002 I got hired at Kings View Community Services in Hanford, in Aug 2004 the contract changed and I was hired by Kings View Counseling Services for Kings County (mental health) as a Case Manager, in January 2005 I became the Clinical Supervisor for the AOD/Prop 36 Program and that's where I am now. I don't know that there are words to describe how much I enjoy my job, the people I work for, the people I work with, and the people who come in to our program. I would have never thought that I would one day be helping other people learn tools to staying clean and sober and begin new lives. Me of all people! Military I was never in the military. In college I went to the Army ROTC recruiter and asked about driving tanks, he told me that women don't drive tanks. I said if I couldn't drive tanks then I didn't see that there would be a place for me in the Army. He gave me an ARMY poster of a tank going across the battle field and told me that was the best that he could do. (lol - wow - things are not that way today!)
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DeMasters Family ... Christmas 2007
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