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bring out my “non-business” side. My former I can. We travel as much as we can. We take active
Toastmasters club, Communicators Plus, where vacations such as riding the mules in the Grand
I was for 23 years, really encouraged me to “just Canyon or kayaking around Mackinac Island

do it”. They gave me a framed collage of reasons in Michigan. We walk/hike continually. When
to be a clown that included photos of me with I was single, I used to try everything to see if I
my hounds. One meeting I was at the lectern, liked it: tennis, racing a car, sailing, water skiing,
turned around, and they were all wearing clown skydiving, windsurfing, downhill skiing, cross

noses! Pretty cool! I went to Mooseburger Camp country skiing, bicycling. The only ones that
Clown School in Minnesota in 1999. I started stuck were bicycling and Cross Country skiing!
clowning with room visits at St. Charles Hospital
in Bend. I did that for quite a few years along with What brought you to Toastmasters?

clowning with kids at various Sunriver events. I When I left Weyerhaeuser in late 1992, I spent a
twisted animal balloons for the kids and had a lot year doing other endeavors. I joined our company
of fun. I last clowned in Sunriver in 2015. It was in 1984. We initially were a software company
time to move on for various reasons, but I still and worked out of our home. I joined Town

miss Chizzy and her adventures! I have clown Criers, the only Toastmasters club in Federal Way
murals on my walls at work and I recreated them at the time. They are still around with a recent
through Shutterfly and put them on my walls in name change. I had been out speaking when I
my “clown like” office at home. Keeps her with was a Professional Secretary, but I wanted to get

me! Visit my Shutterfly “Bump a Nose”
page for a look back at Chizzy the Clown.

What do you do for recreation?

John and I met through the Weyerhaeuser
Ski Club. We started a Cross Country
Ski Club there. For about 10 years in the
1990’s we bicycled all over Oregon with

Cycle Oregon. We plan to resume our
Cross Country Skiing this winter. We love
to hike and do that with the hounds. I
love to walk. I have done it regularly since

2000. For the last 7 years I have walked
the annual Happy Girls Half Marathon
in Bend in late May. It’s a fun experience
and a challenge. I will continue as long as

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