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?
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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