BS ED; Framingham State M. Ed. UAA: Juneau, AK
I worked in the Anchorage School District for 27 years and taught first grade for over 20 years. In addition, I was an Instructional Coach, UAA School of Ed adjunct professor for preservice teachers, and MAT candidates and a part of the Assessment and Evaluation team.
I was born and raised in MA and married and spent 20 of 41years as an Air Force wife stationed in Colorado (14 years) and Alaska (41 years). I am the proud mother of three, grandmother of 4, and great grandmother of the cutest little boy on earth. I’m also the granddaughter of an Army enlisted soldier in WW1 (France), daughter of a Marine (4th Division, Iwo Jima WWII) mother of an Air Force daughter, Grandmother of an Army Calvary Scout, now in the guard waiting for Ranger school, and many more relatives associated with the military.
My association with Quilts of Valor Foundation began in Alaska in 2014 when I found Linda Kau and the Forget-Me-Not group in Fairbanks. Over the next few years, I was able to work with several other groups in the area. After moving back to New England in 2021, to be family instead of company, I started working with Quilts of Hope, RI in 2021. In 2024 I made a connection with the Seabees at the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park in North Kingstown, RI and formalized our group. We are the “Girls in Hut 3” and now sew there and have Award presentations in The Chapel of the Pines on site regularly. Quilts of Hope, RI is a small, but mighty group. I became the group leader is 2024 and the rest is yet to come.