Bio, 2014: Linda Reed Henderson
I stayed in Oklahoma after high school graduation, graduating from OSU in 1967 with a BS in psychology, and from OU School of Medicine in 1971. After internship at OU, I finished my Pediatric residency at UC San Francisco Children's Hospital in 1974. I have worked as a pediatrician ever since, with my interest area being child development. I am more or less retired now and just work about 5 days/month for California Children's Services. I am an attending consultant for rural county clinics taking care of kids with certain orthopedic/neurologic problems such as cerebral palsy. It actually is pretty upbeat--we have a combined clinic with physical therapy, nursing, equipment/brace vendors, family and CCS physician to try and coordinate therapy and maximize each child's potential. I've done it long enough that I have gotten to see a lot of the kids grow up. Most of my professional time was in private solo practice in Arcata, Ca, north of San Francisco in Humboldt County.I married my first love, Lee Henderson, in 1969. I mean, it was the Summer of Love, as they say. Had its ups and downs, the best being 5 great kids. The downs are obvious when we meet at weddings/graduations of same kids. We stayed married 20 years; I guess I was too busy to deal with it earlier.
After kissing a few frogs, I settled down in 2007 and married my husband, Ray Stevens, who is a retired communications guy from Bakersfield. We met via a bass fishing web site, each looking for a tournament fishing partner. I was a C league wannabe and Ray is quite good and still fishing tournaments. It was a variation of the ad, "looking for companion, send picture of boat." Except at the time we were neither one looking for a mate. We are back in northern California near Lake Shasta, if you are in the area. Have a patio boat and tricked out bass boat with all the rest.
Oh yeah, those 5 kids. All doing well. Two teachers, a rheumatologist, an interior designer, and a computer engineer. And 7 grandkids. Scattered all over--San Antonio, Portland, San Francisco and yes, Moore, Ok. I rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles.
Looking forward to the reunion in Stillwater. Have not been there since 2005 at my Dad's funeral. He was living out here with me for a year or so before he died, basically of"old age." Mom died in 1992 of cancer. It will be great to renew friendships from back in the day.
©2009 Stillwater High School Class of 1964