College Best Friend

This is my friend, Mary, from Alabama.  We met in OT school in 1972 at KU back in the day when all the classes were in Lawrence and we graduated from the school of fine arts (so we could take ceramics and weaving!).  I took advantage of that taking another weaving class,  jewelry and textile arts as my electives.  Mary and I were notoriously cynical and snarky towards many of our more "sincere" classmates, but we also worked hard and earned our OT pins in the end.  While we went different directions in our specialty areas we have stayed close over the years, even more so since she moved to teach at UAB.  Since 2007 we have met nearly every summer in Estes Park CO where our families vacation.  We manage to overlap so we can do a day of crafts and/or a day of lunch/shopping in the touristy downtown.  

Looking this over, a friendship that has spanned 40 years (!), our looks haven't changed that much! We have been through so much over the years, this page is a treasure to me.