Jacquelyn Meron Adler

June

Florida

Computer programmer, singer

Carson Pirie Scott, Marshall Fields, Blue Cross

No

6/17/1973

No

Yes

Joey, born 2009
Sammy, born 2011
June, born 2012

Bode, a Morkie (Maltese/Yorkie mix), a rescue dog from National Yorkshire Terrier Rescue, male, 3 1/2 years old. Many dogs and cats preceded him.

Pretty much a nerd, but I grew out of it! Glad high school is behind me.

Building the Orchestra float in my friend Steve's garage.

Singer/Band Member
A Geek

Had a boyfriend in my class. Every day he would walk me home, and pretty much every day we would have a fight on the way. Then he would go home and call to make up. Not the best relationship! I've been married 43 years and we don't fight.

Jack Gelsomino, the band teacher. He let us call him by his first name, which we thought made us very cool.

Liked them all.

NHS, band, orchestra, choir, ballet (singer), Latin club

We were in an honors division, and spent all four years with the same 25 kids. After graduation, everyone scattered and the boundaries of the district were changed about a year afterward. Then the neighborhood started to become a different place. I was the second generation in my family to attend Austin. My mother and her brother, and most of their cousins, all grew up in Austin. This was once a beautiful, safe neighborhood. It's sad what has become of it.

Emmett

All at Emmett. Real neighborhood school. Came home for lunch, or met my mother at Bunny's on Madison and Parkside. I was the only girl in the science club in the 7th grade (with Mrs. Moran)

Yes

University of Chicago 1964-1966, Roosevelt University 1966-1968

Some College

No

Went to the University of Chicago for two years, and then transferred to Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University to major in voice. I have four plus years of credits, but never completed my graduation requirement, having been stymied by the piano proficiency required by all music majors. Then I got jobs selling cosmetics at Carson Pirie Scott, and later at Marshall Field's for a short time until I was hired by Blue Cross and Blue Shield as a Benefits Counselor. I passed a test they gave, and they trained me to be a computer programmer in an arcane assembler language called ARGUS. After awhile they switched hardware and I learned to program in COBOL, BAL and RPG. I left them after four years and took other jobs, one of them at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, before leaving to have a family. I didn't re-enter the workforce until my younger daughter started college, and then I went into my husband's law office to help out with clerical. We now spend about half of our time in Fort Myers, FL where I can do my office work remotely.

Only in high school, on a student panel on Channel 11, and once when our High Holiday choir was on TV.