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More about the twenties of Mary Lou

11/25/2011

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Twenty in 1958 - thirty in 1968 
and so much in between!

It was a busy decade, as it will probably be for you too, my twenties gks!

I was married at 20; Mark Robert was born when I was 22; John Scott when I was 24. Bob was accepted as an machinist apprentice at Hughes Aircraft at about the same time as we got married -- a prestigious appointment of about 20 young Tucson men. 

When Mark was born I continued working as a legal secretary but part time, at home. The law firm supplied a desk,, typewriter, transcribing machine and the stationary, legal paper, carbon paper (!) and any other supplies I needed to transcribe tapes at home. Jack Donahue would drop the tapes off and I would type the documents; he would pick them up and drop off more tapes! I worked when I could, about 15-20 hours a week. 

At age 26, things changed radically as Bob quit the apprenticeship program because we would have had to move to California to continue and we decided instead that he would go to UA to get an engineering degree. I started working full time again at the law firm and Mark and Scott went to Pender's School for day care. Bob switched to pre-dental, was accepted to the University of Washington dental school after three years of college, and so when I turned 29 we were living in Seattle, Washington. Mark was in first grade and Scott was in day care in downtown Seattle. 
So I warn you almost twenties and early twenties folks -- it can be a chaotic  and ever changing time, these twenties! It probably won't be marriage and babies that early for many of you, but excitement comes in many varieties! Enjoy every twist and turn!
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Myself - at Twenty

11/12/2011

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I was twenty years old in 1958. 
I lived in Tucson -- had moved here from Chicago with my parents two years before, in February, 1956, immediately after I graduated from high school in January. On June 21, 1958, at twenty years and six months, Bob Forier and I were married. I had lived at home with my mom and dad until then -- I worked at the Southern Arizona Bank in downtown Tucson in a brand new building on Stone Avenue between Alameda and Pennington. I think it is now the National Bank of Arizona. There are great murals in the main room.

Bob and I lived in a small trailer at Norris and Broadway after we were married. It was the same place Bob had lived before we were married, I believe. We worked hard on decorating -- I think I made the curtains (did I really sew? It was probably Bob that did that.) But I remember that we wanted to change the color of the couch to black and we took it to my house (mom and dad's house) and put it on the brick patio and spray painted it black. We thought we had put enough cloth or plastic under it so the spray wouldn't go on the bricks, but we were wrong. That black never came out of those bricks and my parents were very unhappy with us. In fact, they put a light coat of cement over the bricks so it covered up the black. That's because our wedding and reception were held on the patio of that wonderful house on Tucson Stravenue in Pueblo Gardens.

It was a great wedding -- friends and family and neighbors all having a good time. There was lots of champagne popping! 

I believe I was still twenty, or maybe twenty-one, when I was hired by Jack Donahue to be his secretary. He was about 35 then and I thought he was pretty ancient. (Today he is 90 and he admits to being pretty ancient.) But it was the start of his mentoring and he and his family were central to my career and in some part, to Bob's going to dental school. They were the encouragers, that's for sure.

And this concludes my first 
installment of my twenties story. 
What is yours?
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About those Twenties!

11/6/2011

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About those twenties!

I have asked you, my precious family, for a Christmas Gift this year of 2011, that talks about your twenties. Whether you are in them, approaching them, or remembering them -- I would like to hear how it is, how you think it will be, or how it was ... for YOU as you are or when you were or will be twenty.

Is that clear ?

But I do not leave you without guidelines. I am going to tell you about my time as twenty -- about the world, about our country, about me and the folks in my life. This is going to be great fun! Surely!

Here we go. POST #2 will follow shortly.

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