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Judy Reeves - Lake Charles, La
The matriarch in our family is my oldest sister Karen. She was always there to encourage and inspire us all as we were growing up in our dysfunctional family. I married very young 14 and had to quit school and go to adult ed. in Monroe. In Monroe I finished my classes and I received a GED in the late 70’s. I had two children,a husband and two jobs and I was only 19 years old. I felt I could never go to college since all I had was a GED for a diploma. Karen my oldest sister who also had a GED for a diploma went back to school at a community college and graduated and then decided she was going to go to college. She has always been an inspiration to the whole family. She asked me when I was 28 what did I plan to do with my self? I told he WORK.. She took it upon her self to submit my name to Mc Neese State University, were I was excepted.. I thought she was crazy. I finished the process of paper work and entrance ACT and attended Mc Neese were I received my teaching degree with a specialty in Science in 1994 at 34 . I have been in the class room since and I absolutely love encouraging and facilitating to Middle school students. I have to thank the best sister in the world for the encouragement and inspiration to have been able to achieve these goal..