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HONORING SENIORS
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Senior Senior

Petie Nicholson

Sharing the Past,

Impacting the Future

by Maggie Nicholson

or as long as I can remember, be a flight attendant and graduated as thought it was too unhealthy for little
my grandmother and I have valedictorian from her class. Within ones. She told me about prom night,
Fhad sleepovers. From getting nine months, she was working as and how, after the dance, they would
tucked snuggly into a bed that was a supervisor in Washington D.C. race home, change, grab a burger, and
far too big for me on Christmas Eve Eventually, she was offered a job to then sit on the beach and wait for the
to eating junk food and exchanging instruct flight attendants at
stories, we have always had a good their training facility back
time. Although eating ice cream and home in Florida. Later on she
watching movies late at night are fun, married my grandfather who
my favorite part about sleepovers was a doctor in the Navy.
are the stories that Gran has told me Because of this, she had to
- tales of a different time that have adjust to moving around from
taught me more than any history city to city. Ultimately, she
textbook could, stories of hard work, settled down at the base in
and stories that helped me understand San Diego. In addition, she
that generosity and showing up for successfully raised three sons
people goes a long way. and a daughter. Looking back
on it all today, my father will
My grandmother grew up in Florida tell you that she ran a tight
with two sisters and a brother. Her ship.
father fought in WWII in the Navy,
so during her young life, her mother Through all of this, she
raised her. She attended Florida remembers the stories that
State University for two years before made a different time come
deciding against the only majors to life. She told me about
offered to women: teaching, nursing, her mother’s secret stash of
or secretarial work. She worked Cheetos and Snickers that
hard at a telephone company and she would hide from the kids
was quickly promoted within her after coming home from the
workplace. Afterward, she applied to grocery store because she

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