Lynette Lemon Wert

Notes	Then	Now
It’s interesting to me that one can drop in and out of Alpha Chi as circumstances and interests and family matters dictate. I served on the OU House Board when my kids were small – it was escape to Norman for a half day in the 1970s! Pete and I married in 1959, graduated in 60 and went directly to Hawaii where he was a gunnery officer on a destroyer for four years. I loved being a Navy wife—it seemed everyone had a college degree, two small children, and a far away husband….it was the ultimate sorority. Then the going- back- to-school bug struck and eventually I got degrees from almost all Okla. Institutions of higher learning. Pete made a career in highway construction and I taught writing and editing at UCO for 20 years. We retired early to “play” and had a big boat on Chesapeake Bay for four years. Then family circumstances intervened and we became land lubbers again. We have one daughter in Kansas with her family, and a son who lives around the corner and has 3 boys. In 2007, we had a terrible, terrible year with the loss of my Dad and then our youngest son, Dan, to a rare and aggressive cancer. Dan was 41. We still haven’t recovered, of course, but this project of getting back in touch with friends has been a sort of therapy. We now have 3 grandsons in college and a granddaughter graduating from Topeka high school this spring. That leaves the two “babies”—they’d shudder to hear me say that at age 15! We’ve enjoyed world travels, but are currently close to home as my Mom is in a nursing home with advanced vascular dementia and my sister doesn’t drive and I’m at her beck and call. I’m grateful for the opportunities the computer has opened up! Fondly, Lynette
		Lynette and daughter Andrea, 2010 Both Psi chapter Alpha Chis (1957 and 1980) Both born on July 30 and both getting older.

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