"The story about the halloween party
is my favourite - that event was my "introduction" to the
college life at Corsham and made a huge impression on my young, naive
southern Georgia mentality - I'll never forget it. I thought I had arrived
at the coolest place on earth! Who WAS the famous tombstone??
I lived in a 4 bedroom flat over "Ultra-Warm" in the high
street. My roommate the first year was Mary Kenny from Birmingham
(sculpture), then she moved down the hall to a single room and I shared
with Emma Harvey who was also from Birmingham, and a ceramics student. She
eventually married a local, Dave Bevan, and the last I heard was still
living in the Corsham area (though that was many years ago).
My last year at BAA was spent living over the Optician's across the street
and being besotted with the landlord of the Duke of Cumberland, Bob
Wiltshire. We married that summer (1980) and lived in Calne for 3 years
before moving back to the States. Sadly, my marriage to Bob didn't work
out, but we lasted 13 years and he and his children were all able to
become American citizens. I am remarried now to a wonderful Atlanta guy, 5
years this June, and we have a beautiful daughter, Grace who is only 3 (talk
about late bloomers!). I have been very blessed and now enjoy living back
in the small southern town where I grew up, enjoying being near, but not
IN Atlanta.
I have been lucky, and have had what I consider a "comfortable"
career in graphic design. Worked over the years for a couple of good
agencies in Atlanta on some great accounts such as Coca-Cola and
Kimberly-Clark. I've been a self-employed contractor for Kimberly-Clark
(Kleenex & Huggies, etc.) for the past 6 years now, working out of my
home and only having to travel in to Kimberly-Clark in Roswell one day a
week."
Claudia
has a new job working as Graphics Manager for Merial Global Packaging
Technology.
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