She Learned to Talk 'Southern'

Jean Robertson-Champ writes to us from Roswell, GA, where she is vice president of a life insurance company. Her travels have taken her to London, South America, Italy, Austria, Monaco, Ireland, Hawaii. (And some people in St. Petersburg have trouble driving across a bridge to Tampa because it's too far!)

She still returns to Madeira Beach every year to spend a week in a condo around July 4. "Once you leave the beach, you want the beach," she says.

What she remembers most about her years at NEHS was trying to lose her Massachusetts accent and the many classmates who helped her to "talk Southern". She has great memories of her days on the swimming team. Among her favorite teachers were Mr. Ritter from DCT (Diversified Cooperative Training), Ms Cheesmond and reading Shakespeare's "MacBeth", and Mr. Ritter in Social Studies, who taught her about a guy named Castro, who had just taken power from a guy named Batista.

Her three proudest achievements are her three children.