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Career - Retired as Associate Director for Federal Compliance and Oversight, Office of Medicaid Administration, Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation

Education - B.S. from North Texas State University (Denton, TX) in 1975, MAHS from St. Edward's University (Austin, TX) in 1995.

Family - 3 children, 2 grand children, 1 great grand child

Birth - 1940 in Dublin, Georgia

Retired But Still Kicking

Proof - Currently write a column for The Mac Observer, teach basic computer skills, author of computer manual, and hold offices in the local Macintosh Users Group.

Do You Even Care?

Best Award - Mary Moody Foundation Award for Outstanding MAHS Graduate Student - 1995

Most Surprising Accomplishment - 4.0 GPA in Graduate School

Favorite Dessert - Baskin Robbins Vanilla Ice Cream Cake

Favorite Drink - (make that only drink) - Regular Coca- Cola

Best Narrow Escape - Walked away from an airplane crash with nothing more than a few more gray hairs

The Most Frequently Heard Comment as a Child - "No You Aren't!" when told that my sister and I are twins

Best Remembered Pet - My 17 year old cat (Sockie) who died in 2004

Best New Pet - Abby, my 1 year old Tabby

Favorite Past Times - Painting still lifes and teaching Mac skills .

The Most Useless Information That I have Ever Heard - It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs

The best $100 Worth of Advice I Ever Got From a Plumber - To keep your garbage disposal from smelling do the following once a week: Fill the disposal with ice. Turn on the disposal and let in run until the ice is chopped up. Keep it on and turn on the water and let it run full tilt until brown sludge comes out of the disposal and then runs back down the drain. Let water continue to run for a few seconds more and then turn it off. It works great

Political Affiliation - Democratic

What I wish People Would Remember - George Bush is NOT a Texan

Career - Retired as Associate Director for Federal Compliance and Oversight, Office of Medicaid Administration, Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation

Education - B.S. from North Texas State University (Denton, TX) in 1975, MAHS from St. Edward's University (Austin, TX) in 1995.

Family - 3 children, 2 grand children, 1 great grand child

Birth - 1940 in Dublin, Georgia

Currently write a column for The Mac Observer, teach basic computer skills, author of computer manual, and hold offices in the local Macintosh Users Group.

Best Award - Mary Moody Foundation Award for Outstanding MAHS Graduate Student - 1995

Most Surprising Accomplishment - 4.0 GPA in Graduate School