Betty Harrison
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is living in northern California, 40 minutes north of the Golden Gate. She is single, mother to two lovely daughters and retired in gorgeous Sonoma County.
Betty Reports
Hello WHS Class of '66. It is so nice to see all your names and where you are living. It has been so many years it is hard to believe, and we have moved all over the country too.
Betty and her two daughters - Olivia and Adarene
As for the past 40 years, I've led several different lives, been married 4 times, 3 divorced, 1 disappeared (haha). I traveled for the first 10 years after high school, backpacked around Europe, traveled around the U.S. Canada and Mexico, and landed in Los Angeles, in Venice where I met my first husband Ken.
We settled in Bellingham Washington, where I worked on a Master in Education while we tamed 10 acres and lived in the woods where we watched Mt Baker spew steam on a disturbingly regular basis. After we split and he returned to Australia, I met and married my second husband, who lived in beautiful Marin County, California. We have a daughter, Adarene, who is 24 and recently graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Women's Studies and Rhetoric.
After divorcing, I moved to Petaluma and began teaching junior high school art and communications. There I married my third husband, with whom I had my second daughter, Olivia, who has just graduated from high school. In 2003, I retired from teaching, and returned to grad school to work on a Masters in Reading and Literacy. Last year, an old love whom I had met in Amsterdam 30 years ago, showed up on my doorstep. We married later that year, but he has disappeared as mysteriously as he had reappeard. Ah life! At least it saves me the expense of another divorce.
My current loves are singing, video production and skinny-dipping at Harbin Hot Springs. I was instrumental in starting our local public access television stations, and produced a teen news show for several years. I took up singing again about 10 years ago, and this Spring, sang my first public solo. My knees are still shaking. That's why I go to Harbin; trust me- it is easier to be naked than to sing in public.
I am sorry to miss the reunion. It is so nice to see everyone's name and address online, but I sure would like to see other people's stories, too. I had been planning to attend, until my mothers' death, which has caused me to change my plans. The service will be at St. John's Episcopal in Buffalo on June 22 at 1 PM.
Keep me on the list for the 50th! And give me a call if you are ever out this way.
Fond regards,
Betty Harrison
707-763-9307
