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Linda Noller Hart

After graduating from CTHS I worked for Fred L. Wham, Jr. (attorney) and Calvin Agee (stock broker for Newhard Cook)in Centralia for 1.5 years before enrolling at UofI in Champaign-Urbana. After getting my BS in Education, I moved to Fremont, CA where I taught 4th grade for 2 years until I married Gary Hart, also a CTHS graduate. Gary was working for Fairchild Semiconductor, but was soon recruited to be Intel's first masking engineer so we moved to Sunnyvale, CA. I took a part time position working for Robert Trent Jones, the golf course architect until my first daughter was born and then stayed home with our children over the next 15 years. We moved to our first home in San Jose when our first daughter was 9 months old and stayed there until a year after our second daughter was born when we moved to Saratoga, CA thanks to Intel stock options. We stayed in Saratoga until 1993 when we separated. Gary had left Intel and had become a real estate broker doing property management. Gary passed away May 2, 1999. When my youngest child, a son, was about 8, I went back to work for a local bank's Trust department where I stayed for 15 years, changing positions every couple of years. I was then offered an opportunity to work for a start up--Telocity--which offered high-speed internet connections; it was absorbed by DIRECTV and we had to close our doors after 9/11. I tried full retirement for about a year, but I got my license and now work part time as an assistant to a husband/wife real estate team. My son has two sons, 8.5 and 6; both of my daughters are expecting their first children this year in October and December. Being a grandmother is probably the most fun thing I have ever done. I have had the opportunity to do a little bit of traveling to Oahu, Maui, Vancouver, B.C., Rome/Florence and London.

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