For 27 years I have worked for the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission at Pennsbury Manor, William Penn’s country home on the Delaware. Always a tour guide, I am now Guide Supervisor and Volunteer Coordinator of over 100 volunteers. I am one of the lucky ones who can say that I have the perfect job for me.

Previously, I taught French and Social Studies at several junior high schools after graduating from Alma College in Alma, Michigan in 1967. I was fortunate to have spent my junior year in Paris, France.

My husband, Nelson, is retired from the Boy Scouts of America. We have lived in Levittown, PA for most of our 38 years together. Our greatest joy was becoming parents. Our son, Frank, 24, graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA with a double major in History and East Asian Studies. He has spent the last two years as an assistant English teacher in northern Japan and will return home in late summer to research graduate schools. He hopes to become a professor of East Asian Studies.

In March, we spent two weeks in Japan with Frank as our guide. We visited Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Frank’s home city of Morioka in the Iwate Prefecture. It was a thrill to meet Frank’s host family from his junior year and see the affection they have for him. We explored one beautiful site after another with our favorite being Nikko, a mausoleum-shrine in Nikko National Forest located northwest of Tokyo. We are grateful for this trip of a lifetime.

I echo the thanks of many classmates to Barbara for taking the time and initiative to locate all of us and to Steve whose website has given the CHS class of 63 a sense of community. This is especially true for those of us who have lost touch with our classmates.

......Ann Robinson Clements