College years: This is the tower at Kutztown State College (Now Kutztown University). Do you see the chicken? As I mentioned earlier, I attended the Lab School from second to fifth grade. So, the campus was familiar to me. Also, several of my Muhlenberg classmates attended Kutztown. It was nice to be with them again after my year at Youk Suburban. I even got to see some of our old friends from the time we lived in Lyon Station and Sally Ann Furnace. I studied Elementary Education, with minors in English and Science. Field hockey was my recreational sport, and I even ran for and won a seat on the student government board my freshman year. A very embarrassing moment occurred during freshman orientation (Frosh Week). We were lined up in front of the "hazing" committee and were asked what used to be on top of the empty pedestal in front of us. Without thinking, I spoke up and said, "an eagle". Well, I remembered the eagle from my Lab School days. What I didn't remember was that you don't want to stand out in front of the upper classmen!! It wasn't all that bad though and I think that's how I won the student government election ... they remembered my name, which also began with A and was on the top of the ballot!!!

      

Here I am with my friend Joanne Althouse, "Little Jo". I was "Big Jo". We were coming back from a Physics class one spring day. One of the fun things we used to do on Saturdays was to walk out to Renninger's Farmers' Market a couple miles from college. We would buy a giant pretzel for a quarter to eat on the way back.

After graduating from Kutztown in 1966, I got a job teaching at Riverview Park Elementary School. This was the last school my father opened before he moved to York. My first salary was $6,000, but over the summer, the board raised starting salaries to $8,000. It was kind of neat, because one of the teachers there was a new teacher when my mother was teaching in the Muhlenberg Township School District. Mother mentored Audrey and then she became one of my mentors many years later.

I had to do a lot of convincing, but finally got my parents to agree to my buying a mobile home which was in a "retirement" type park in Temple, my old stomping grounds. I also bought my first car, a Hillman Husky, The day we got it, Dad drove the test drive and also drove it all the way home. I wasn't sure I was going to get to take it with me!