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My name is Jackie Gillespie. I am a graduate of Norwich University class of 2018. My role here at Cantigny Park is Program's Coordinator. And my job is to create public programming for our audience to cater to our current audience, but also to grow our audience.
That means creating programming here inside the first division museum that is military based but it also means that I can create programming outside in our gardens and elsewhere all around the park. So it's a lot of research about different topics It's a lot of planning, organizing, contacting vendors, making relationships. It's a really fun environment. I really enjoy working at Cantigny Park.
Wheaton is so cute. There's a lot of cute coffee shops and book shops and fun things to do. It's a special place. It's a whole, like, this whole area. It's a hidden gem of Wheaton. That's what we hear a lot when people come to visit us here.
It was an easy choice choosing to get my degree in military history. Military history has been my passion ever since I was a little girl. Both of my grandfathers served in World War II. My grandfather who fought in the Pacific Theater actually took me and my cousins to see the places that he fought, which just brought it all to life. When I found that there was such a thing as a degree in military history, I knew that that was what I wanted to do.
My Norwich education taught me so many things that I have used. I absolutely loved the professors at Norwich University, I felt very supported the entire time I was going through school. I also really appreciated the flexibility of the degree to do it semi at my own pace. So it was really the perfect degree for a working adult.
And outside of my family. I love being outside. I like to go on walks every day and run a couple of times a week. I love to read and just sitting in the sun. I live a great life. I like my life.
The Norwich community is really everywhere, and people see me wearing the sweatshirt when I'm out, and they're like, 'Did you go there?' And I'm like, 'yeah, it was great.' I had a wonderful experience. It's a really cool close knit community.
And there are alumni events all across the country, here in Chicago as well. So it's easy to stay connected.
If I had to tell my younger self about what attending Norwich University would eventually mean to me. First of all, you're gonna make it. It's gonna be okay. You're going to love this experience. It might feel overwhelming sometimes, but you're gonna be supported all along the way, not only by your friends and family, but by your classmates and your professors.
If someone was interested in pursuing this line of work, I would say absolutely do it. It is so much fun. It is super rewarding. You do have to persevere, you will never regret it. You will have wonderful colleagues. You will have wonderful opportunities, and After leaving my Norwich family, I found a brand new family here at Cantigny Park.
Definitely making it into a mini-business has been the hardest part. I make and sell art as a hobby in my free time. To still stay connected to the art while also marketing myself, doing sales, doing taxes, trying to figure out how to have an online presence and still keep my mental health - those parts have been the hardest.
Jackie began working with his father at a young age. He says his dad was very detail-oriented, timely, and precise with his work, and those traits stayed with him. He learned from his dad about construction, which led him to trade school and eventually historic repairs at Fort Clinch.
My professional experience, combined with my desire to learn, challenge myself to be innovative, and collaborate with others has molded my desire to explore the field of marketing, specifically in higher education. I have stayed connected to this unique universe through presenting at professional conferences, co-hosting and co-producing the Higher Ed Social podcast, contributing and serving as Editor for Link, and volunteering as an APO LEADS presenter and Regional staff member of Alpha Phi Omega.
That plot of land was at 103 Cascade Road in Stamford. With the help of the Simons and a pair of local bankers, the Spelke brothers, the Robinsons purchased the land from contractor Ben Gunnar, who they hired to construct their dream home. The house, however, would not be ready in time for the 1954 school year. The Simons offered the Robinsons a place to stay so that Rachel could oversee the building project.
Providers from across the nation and the world refer children to Gillette because we have stayed the course for 125 years, focused on some of the toughest challenges in pediatric healthcare. Our unceasing commitment has led to a deep - and always growing - expertise in complex conditions.
I have been a licensed Realtor since 2000, and I specialize my business right here! I have been writing and publishing my newsletter, The Village Connection for years now. It has become such a fun way to stay connected with all things OV! Know that I would love to hear from YOU! Please feel free to share memories, stories and pictures about things that make our neighborhood so special!
As a stay-at-home mum, she cooked all our meals and didn't take shortcuts. Everything was always done properly. That is not to say our food was fancy or complicated, it was just proper home cooking and not frozen meals or powder sachets etc.
I once read that people who migrated to another country would hold onto cultures and traditions which, in their country of origin, would become slowly forgotten or evolve/ modernise. It's a way to remain connected, and I definitely feel that applies to my family.
Having come here as adults, Malaysian Chinese food is what my parents grew up eating and it's what they knew how to cook. Back in those days, we didn't have the internet to access thousands of recipes, so learning to cook a new cuisine wasn't as accessible as it is now. But eating food from home and eating it the way we always have is definitely a way we stay connected to our culture. It's why we eat Malaysian food when we go out, not just because we miss the food but because it is a taste of home.
Problems dogged him elsewhere. Robinson and another black player, Johnny Wright, trained in Sanford with the Royals, but he wasn't allowed to stay in the hotel with the rest of the team. The chief of police there threatened to cancel games if Robinson played. The city of Sanford issued a public apology in 1997.
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