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often. 1 was also close to Gram, Mom's Mother - I was born on her birthday and felt a special closeness to her. One of Gram's favorite sentences was "Wait now"; she had to keep saying this as we all pressed close to her to be given a little prize of some kind. These words have rung in my heart at some of the most profound moments of my life - serving to soothe "like oil" the rough edges of my impatient nature - how grateful I am for so gentle an imperative from someone who loved me as much as Gram did.. How powerful the Communion of Saints within our own family!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mom and Daddy also had different educational backgrounds, but with this in common - they were both achievers. Daddy was denied a chance to take an offer to study at Tulane because his former education did not qualify him. However, he opened another door. Daddy became a salesman in the refrigeration business, first with Fredrick, then with Hussmann and finally with GE. Daddy eventually went into his own ousiness. He won trips and was recognized as the top regional salesman more	than	once. One	day when I was home	on
a visit 1 answered the	door	to accept	some steaks that were
given as gifts to Daddy for	a favor done years ago. I
learned later from Mom	that	Daddy had	let a debt go when
tnis man was trying to establish himself in business. This nappeneo after Daddy had retired to play golf. This was only one such incident of many.
Mom graduated from Dominican with the yearbook caption ?small of stature but great of mind". Mom's goals were to major in Spanish and to be a foreign secretary. It was for tnis purpose she received a scholarship from Loyola's dean, Father Hines, S.J. Mom terminated her Spanish studies before realizing her goal; and for the next twenty-five years, being a secretary was the most foreign thing from her mind. Mom took to diapers and bottles and tieing shoes and stories and beach combing, and singing, and kissing-it-we11, and sewing and cooking and driving and making Baked Alaska. One of our neighbors exclaimed that she had never known any mother to make Baked Alaska for birthday cakes. The neighbors also marveled that they never heard Mom raise her voice at us; and it was beyond the beyond how the house was always spotless! Kit (Roth) Hainkel, a long time friend, said that she had the impression of Mom that "she was perfect". Such a statement would have made Mom cringe, but from my childhood, my adult years with Mom and from that most sacred and consoling farewell at the end - I find myself agreeing with Kit!
Mom loved being a mother and it often upset her that in our day, motherhood was not considered a "career". Mom did go to NASA to pursue her career as secretary and she was eminently
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