After RJR, I went to Emory University in Atlanta where I started the campus radio station, and continued with my interest in sound and lighting. I got my doctorate in Phildelphia at Salius University. I worked in radio & TV since I have a first class FCC l license. I was sound director for the Dick Clark show.





I was the last doctor drafted and served in USAF as chief optometrist at Charleston AFB. I certified pilots to fly, worked in ER, and certified base safety. My play time was in C5's and C141's.


 


Coming back to WS, I joined my father's practice which he started in 1938.





My daughter Leigh is getting her doctorate from Emory University and lives with husband and grandchild in Portland OR.  Kacie lives with her husband in Denver CO where she is head of migratory birds for the state of Colorado. Even though she got her masters at Perdue, she is a true Hokie.





I served 12 years on the Forsyth County Board of Health and 10 years on the Board of the Nature Science Center. 





I own a software company that tracks health needs for the Head Start Program under the dept of HHS. 





My love of trains shows in my founding of the Southbound Model Railroaders and I am reponsible for the building of the club at South Fork Park. From 1973-1993, I was responsible for the steam train trips out of WS. I have written railroad history books and magazine articles.





Professionally I am a member of all major optometric organizations and was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Optometry. I still work every day seeing patients !





One of my biggest accomplishments was helping Sarah Johnson in defeating Walmart store placement on Reynolda Rd. Our motto was "Don't Mess with 63'

After RJR, I attended UNC. I was probably the last one to be accepted in my class; and Ms. Edwards told me I’d better sit on the front row! Well, I did and graduated in ‘67 with a BS in Business Administration. While my grades were decent, the time I spent cleaning up after roommate Bill Benton probably kept me from reaching my full potential. His mom always told me that Bill should pay me 10% of his wages for life for my custodial efforts, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe I'm in his will?


After Chapel Hill, I did my obligatory five years in the Army, including one tour in Viet Nam. Arriving home, I was met at the airport by Alan Cameron's girlfriend/my future wife - Thanks Alan! Of course I waited to make my move until after Cherie and Alan had stopped dating – and we’ve been happily married and living in Alexandria, VA for 39 years. We have two wonderful children, Zachary, 32 and Shantry, 26 and one granddaughter, Coryell, 2, who thinks her "Boppa" is the coolest.

After the Army, I received an MS in Real Estate and Urban Planning from American University in Washington, DC. (still sitting on the first row, Ms. Edwards) and have been involved in real estate ever since, actively participating in the REALTOR Association, serving as president of my local and state associations.

As Cherie and I move closer to retirement, we are spending more time at our "retirement" home in Florida and our condo on the Costa del Sol in Spain. (Cherie studied in Madrid in 1966 and we have been going back for over forty years.)

Besides travel, I have been actively swimming for years, including an annual  4.4 mile swim across the Chesapeake Bay from 1996-2006. In 2007, I walked a 530-mile pilgrimage route across northern Spain (El Camino de Santiago) in memory of our Spanish Godson, Alvaro who was killed in a car accident in Spain in 1997, just three weeks after graduating from high school in the US with our son Zachary, and having lived with us for the previous two years. A pilgrim's prayer that served me on The Camino and which I have continued to pray every day since:


Guide me on my way this day. Keep me safe from harm. Deepen my relationship with you, your earth and all its people. Strengthen your love within me that I may be a presence of peace in your world.


We are blessed with reasonably good health and pray it continues for all of us. I am looking forward to seeing all my classmates after these many years. I was so disappointed we didn't have a 40th reunion, so my thanks go out to the Planning Team for making this event possible.

After Reyholds,  I graduated from Wake Forest with a teacher's  certificate and a degree in history.  While there, I married my high school sweetheart, Robert Pulliam.  Consequentley, I was fulfilling my dreams of "playing house", being a wife and mother.  We have been married 46 years and have two children.


   Our daughter, Anne lives just a couple of miles from our house.  She and her husband have three children - our precious grandchildren.  She graduated from Meredith with an accounting degree, and after she became involved in my building business, she went back to school and earned an architectural design degree.  She has a full family life, but also enjoys designing residential and commericial projects.


   Our son Bob graduated from Davidson with a degree in Math.  He worked for several years with Anderson Consulting before moving to Seattle  as a Developer for Microsoft.  He truly loves it.  


    I have always been very involved in many volunteer activities - community, the kids schools, church, the arts and fund raising.  Through these, I developed my organizational and management skills.  The year that Anne left fro Meredith, Bob moved to Boston to attend Prep School.  This enabled me to embark on my first career - designing and building houses.  We have designed, built, furnished and sold 9 high end homes on the NC coast.  Each home is totally different, so each one is a unique creation.  Eventhough this has fulfilled my dream of playing house, it also has provided  for friends and new acquaintances a relaxing retreat right on the beach.


   Robert and I have enjoyed  spending time working and relaxing at the beach, but we also  love traveling.  We have made several trips to different countries in Europe.  I will go back to France or London any time.  Robert loves to fish in Alaska.  He wants Africa to be our next trip - we will see!!!!!


   During the last year, it has been a delight to have the Reunion Planning meetings at our home.  It has been a wonderful opportunity to re-live and remember RJR times, but also to reconnect and share life's experiences.  I hope everyone will come amd help celebrate.  Its so good reconnecting.