After graduating from Franklin K. Lane in January 1953, I was employed by Bank of the Manhattan Co. as a bookkeeper and later as a bank teller in Ozone Park for six and a half years.  During that time, in July 1958, I married Thomas Carmody and settled in Deer Park, L.I.  In 1961, a son, Brian, was born and in 1965, a daughter, Colleen, joined the family.  Tom and I had a typical suburban life - I as a stay at home Mom and Tom as an electronics engineer, doing work for the U.S. Navy.
     In 1972 we bought a summer home at Oak Beach, Long Island, where we took up year round residence in 1983 when our daughter graduated from High School. The children are married and have given me six grandsons. I have been a quilter and have attempted some oil paintings.
     After forty-one years of marriage, Tom and I separated two years ago. I now live in Calverton, L.I. during the summer and Palm Beach, FL, during the winter.