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After high school, I attended Washington University for a year then decided I wanted the experience of living away from home, so I transferred to Mizzou but then came back to Wash. U., and by taking extra classes during the summers graduated in August of 1960. I had wanted to major in theater but felt guilty spending scholarship money on courses that were so enjoyable and so impractical, so instead I majored in English and Secondary Education. |
At the end of August I was offered a high school teaching job, but instead, on impulse, I applied to and was accepted by TWA; I became an international stewardess (called airline hostess then.) The training was in Kansas City where I met my future husband, Bruce Farkas, who was a student at the osteopathic college. For almost a year I flew in the U. S. and then Europe; I was propositioned by movie stars and diplomats, but, nevertheless, left the airline to marry Bruce Farkas. We lived in Kansas City; I taught English, Speech and Drama. We then moved to Detroit where Bruce took up an internship and I, again taught. The next year we moved to Miami Beach; Bruce wanted to be near his father who was ill. Bruce opened a general practice; I taught public speaking to adults and gave birth to our first child, David. That year I auditioned for the television show, Ding Dong School and would have been "Miss Suzanne", but Bruce’s father died and Bruce decided to accept a residency in radiology in Chicago. So we took his mother with us and moved to Chicago--Hyde Park. I substituted at the U. of Chicago Laboratory School and gave birth to Debra (‘67) and Alan (‘69). |