Here you go, Laura Gallagher: 1.I taught myself to sew in sixth grade and was designing and constructing most of my clothes by eighth grade. 2.My hometown is the home of the ice cream sundae. 3.My pogo stick record in fifth grade was 1500 jumps. I could do 400 with no hands and could pogo stick up stairs. 4.In college when a friend and I compared notes about our childhoods, we learned we each had a best friend named Carol – and it turned out to be the same Carol. My friend knew her in Milwaukee until kindergarten. I knew her after she moved to Two Rivers in first grade until she moved to Hinsdale in fifth grade. Now she lives in Oakland, CA and we’re connected on Facebook. 5.My favorite toy is Photoshop. 6.My father was a top-clearance spy in the OSS who transported portions of deciphered German code to the Allied generals across Europe and North Africa. He flew to France D-Day +1 with decoded messages and cyanide in case he was captured. He was sworn to secrecy and never told us any of this until shortly before he died. 7.My maternal great grandmother was a nun from Ireland, living in a cloistered convent in New York. She met the German butcher who made the deliveries. 8.I accepted the key to the city of Limoges, France from the city’s mayor on behalf of the Friendship Force as the interpreter for the Madison exchange. I was also interviewed on French radio and TV as our representative for the exchange. 9.In high school I painted an 8’ x 8’ pirate (our mascot) on plywood that hung in the gym for years until they razed the school. 10. I rode in the RAGBRAI (annual bike ride across Iowa) in 1985, 1987 and 2002. I am quite certain I will not do it again!
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:12:49 +0000
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