Virginia Gilley:
CLASS OF 1965
Fairhaven High SchoolClass of 1965
Fairhaven, MA
Fairhaven Junior High SchoolClass of 1961
Fairhaven, MA
East Fairhaven Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Fairhaven, MA
Virginia's Story
Life
After working in New Bedford for experience and a living, I moved to Boston in 1969 and worked and attended college at Northeastern University, studied classical voice the entire time and made many trips to the Metropolitan Opera with another now-deceased voice student. I was there in Boston during Kent State, and it was a fascinating time. I moved to Maine in 8/1976, and lived in the Waterville area. I worked and attended school at Colby College from 1978-1981. I took a chance and an opportunity and moved to western South Carolina in late 1981; worked and studied at Clemson University from 1982-1987. I ended up with junior year credits in an English ...Expand for more
major, minor in history. Had a chance to head back north in mid-1987, and with being homesick for the North and sick of the southern heat, I did the move and lived in Yonkers, NY from 7/87 until 8/09 when I moved to New Rochelle from then until now. A week after NY arrival, I started at a membership, informational non-profit in Manhattan, from which I retired full-time employment on 2/12 after 24 1/2 years. I've lived in three 'cultures' - city, rural New England and the South, but I'm still a New England gal; I still give thought to returning to either Fairhaven or ME, but have become disabled because of severe arthritis which led to my year-early retirement.
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