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After college I taught for a couple of years before going to grad school at U of FL. I returned to IA for an administrative position at Central College, Pella. While there, I met my husband Mitch in Des Moines and later we moved on to the Philadelphia area where I earned my doctorate in psych at U Penn while working at the Penn Counseling Center. After 8 years there we relocated to Chicago with our two small daughters. I continued to work as a psychologist but also started helping my brother Chuck, who was a pastor in Cabrini Green, a huge public housing development. We started a school for the kids there and eventually I stopped being a therapist and became full time administrator of our nonprofit, Holy Family Ministries, which eventually included four other programs as well as the school: www.hfm.org. Today it's a $5MM+ organization but I (mostly)retired in 2018. Now I oversee our charity resale store (shades of Dad's passion for retail in Waverly!) Mitch and I also stay busy with a couple of clubs and boards. Our two daughters are Jessica, an employee of the UN- working on the Yemen food crisis but living in CA- and Emily, Sr. Director at PAC, where her sole client is Amazon. Mitch and I love to travel, read, garden, & swim----and we spend a couple months each winter in MX.
