My life has been interesting, and full of joy and excitement.  I am still an initiator,
and a full participant in my life.  I have many wonderful friends, two great daughters,
and three amazing granddaughters.  Two men, separately, lasted for about 
thirty years and that was enough.

After City Park,I got a BA, a Teaching Certicate and a MA in sociology. I taught at the
University here,  had an open line radio show, ran a health project, worked as an
educational consultant for the Dept of Education, and a speech writer for the Minister,
was the senior author  for two books for teachers, Confronting the Stereotypes, for 
grades K to 6.  From 1983 to 1997 I developed and managed training programs for 
single parents aged 15 to 28, graduating over a 1,000  women and supervised the development
of other programs including one for young street prostitutes.

All my life I have been active on Boards, usually as Chair, principally with feminist
and activist organizations, although I sat for 6 years as the Government representative
on the College of Physicians and Surgeons.  I am an active New Democrat and 
have served in many executive capacities at the federal and provincial level.  I am a 
fundraiser, an organizer and part of the (formerly ) smoke-filled backrooms.

I travel when I can, to the Carribean or Central America in the winter, and get to Europe
about every five years.  Last fall I spent six weeks there, starting in Istanbul, and
ending in Amsterdam.

I retired at 55, or so I thought.  Since then my granddaughters who live only blocks from
me have arrived, one daughter became an editor / publisher so I took up sales for her. I
consult with training programs.
The Government appointed me in 2000 to Chair the License Suspension Appeal Board, a quasi-
judicial Board which judges appeals of persons suspended for drunk 
driving, car theft, vandalism, speeding and like offenses.  This takes about a day a 
week, and I hold public hearings outside Winnipeg and in the City.  For those of you who 
remember my driving behavior in my youth, it is the height of irony that I should now be 
the final arbiter in Manitoba regarding  peoples driving.

I love my life, and am very happy.  It isn't perfect but it is pretty good.  I will be
thinking of you during the reunion and hoping you feel the same.

From Linda Taylor