Week 2 - Personal History

“What were your favorite subjects in school? Why?”

MOM:
My favorite subject in school was English.  I loved writing stories and reading books.  That is why I probably became an English teacher.  I also liked taking journalism and helping to write the school paper.  That is probably why I also became the journalism teacher and advisor for the school newspapers.  That was one job that I really liked.  I also liked choir in high school.  I loved traveling around to different places to sing.  I was a 2nd alto.  That was fun! 
JACKIE:
My favorite subjects in school... was Art obviously.   I loved in Elementary the art teacher and going to her room to do crafts and ceramics.  In middle school, I liked art as well, but also enjoyed the cooking classes, and sewing.  In high school, my favorite was Art again, but we learned more about writing in calligraphy, and ceramics where I loved building projects by hand in clay.  So, Art followed into college where painting in oils was my favorite class, as well as a watercolor class were we got to meet in different locations to draw the buildings around Salt Lake.

STACY:
My favorite subject in school was math.  I liked it because it made sense to me.  There was a formula where you would always get the right answer.  The funny thing is that I never took any math in college.  I had done the highest math my senior year in high school, AP Calculus BC and scored a 4 out of 5.  That was good enough to test me out of any other math I was required to take in college.  I also loved my interior design class in high school with Mrs. H and yearbook with Mr. Alcorn.  In college, my favorite classes were the design ones that did color studies.  I also liked my business classes that were about negotiation and mediation.  I thought that was very interesting.

Week 1 - Personal History

Starting the weekly personal history again for 2015:

Week 1:

Where did you go to school? What was school like for you?

MOM:
I went to school in California in Inglewood, California.  I skipped kindergarten and went straight to first grade.  My teacher's name was Mrs. Holmes. I remember her because her eyes bugged out and she scared all the children.  She must have had a thyroid problem.  Every week a child was chosen to be the classroom monitor to help the teacher.  I remember that I waited all year to be chosen.  Finally, I was chosen for the final week of school, and I came down with the chickenpox, so I never got to be classroom monitor.  I was also in the first grade in California, when the Salk vaccine came out for polio.  I remember lining up single file to eat the sugar cube the vaccine was on.  We were all lined up outside on the playground like we were all in prison. 

     We moved back to Utah and I went to Canyon Rim Elementary for second and third grade.  Then we moved to Holladay, and I went to the fourth and fifth grade at Hillview Elementary.  Then Cottonwood Elementary was built and that is where I went to sixth grade.  

     I went to Olympus Junior High for the seventh to the ninth grade.  I won the school spelling bee in the eighth grade.  I was also on the school newspaper.  I went to Olympus High School and was the alternate for the business sterling scholarship.  I was in a club called the HighTies for good grades, and I was the vice president.  I sang alto in the concert choir, and I was also on the school newspaper.  

     I then went to the University of Utah and graduated in history and English.  I got my teaching certificate and got a job at Union Jr. High.  One of my favorite classes at the U. was skiing.  I took skiing classes every winter.  That is where I met my future husband, Drake.  I later went back to the U. after I had four children, a job, was in the primary presidency, had a husband and a dog, and got a Masters Degree in Education, specializing in Gifted Education.  Life was wonderful and beautiful!
 

JACKIE:

The school we went to as kids, was Altara Elementary, Crescent middle School, and Alta High School, and then the University of Utah (for my bachelors), and The LDS Business College (for some Interior Design classes, no degree.)  

So, school was fun for me I suppose.  I really enjoyed art and at Altara I remember being in Reflections and winning a poster that went on to Washington D.C..  And in Middle School, doing art projects and winning Reflections there as well.   I painted with my grandma those years so that was really memorable.  In High School I did A.P. Art and got enough to earn some college credit.   Least memorable?  Probably being fat, not having dates, and teasing, (but that's another story.)  Generally, I enjoyed school and my friends and especially doing everything with you--STACY, in school, and even now beyond school.  :-)

STACY:
I went to Altara Elementary, Crescent View Middle School and Alta High.  There were all located along 11000 South.  I went to the University of Utah for my bachelor's in architectural studies and Master's in Architecture and MBA (1995-2003).

I liked school, especially math classes when I was younger.  Middle School was probably my least favorite time in school. It was hard adjusting to the popular kids and just being a teenager.  My mom taught at my middle school when I started 9th grade, so that made it better.  I liked High School where I could select the type of classes I enjoyed.  I really liked interior design and drafting.  I took orchestra (I played the violin) for my sophomore and junior year.  Then, I realized my senior year that I really didn't like orchestra and decided to join the yearbook staff.  That was so fun to be creative and design the yearbook pages.  I wished I would have done it the other two years too.  Oh well. 

I enjoyed my college days.  I made awesome, lifetime friends while working at the Union building.  These friends are Oanh and Deidre.  I have many memories of the 8 continuous years I was at the U.  I attended with Jackie, Jenny and my late friend Silicia.  Architecture school was hard and overwhelming, but I learned a lot.  MBA was great meeting new people and working in groups.  Sometimes I wish I was back in school learning and exploring.