Ten Things to know about Carol:
- 1) She loves dogs.
- 2) The only thing she loves more than dogs is her family (well, most of them).
- 3) She placed first in a French pronunciation contest in high school.
- 4) Her parents thought she was allergic to chocolate when she was young, and she was "deprived" for many years. She has been making up for that ever since the allergy tests proved her parents wrong.
- 5) Both of her parents died due to Alzheimer's. Her mom, Velma, had the disease and died in 2015. Here is an article Carol wrote about her: https://wesselselderlaw.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/the-mom-i-knew/ . Her father, Russell, never had Alzheimer's, but as a caregiver for Velma, he put his own health care needs aside and died in 2008 of a form of cancer that was very treatable if he had gone to the doctor when he needed to. Here is an article she wrote about him: https://wesselselderlaw.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/the-father-i-lost/ This is why Carol feels that it is so critical to pay attention to the needs of caregivers, as well as the needs of people living with dementia.
- 6) She loves wine (especially Burgundy wines) more than chocolate, less than dogs, and often on a par with those certain members of her family that do not top dogs.
- 7) Her first exposure to Rotary was as a participant at the World Affairs Seminar for two years running when she was in high school.
- 8) Her first exposure to MT Sunrise was when she bid on "Rotary works for you" and the crew came and planted flowers and spread mulch in the garden where she and her now-husband Paul were going to be married. Since that time in 2018, many flowers have grown, many weeds have been pulled, and there are three new garden beds in other parts of the yard. She loves gardening, but would be nowhere on that without Paul's diligent weed management and hole digging skills ("you point, I dig.")
- 9) Her dogs are named Bowie and Rita. She has had 12 dogs in her life: Bailey, Kodiak, Mack, Cody, Big Jake, Little Jake, Sunny, Bowie, DD, Sadie, Daisy and Rita. Did she mention her parents also thought she was allergic to dogs and deprived her of that too, so she has made up for it with all of these dogs since she turned 20.
- 10) She has a newfound love of birding and bird photography. Thanks to the 60th birthday present she told Paul he was getting her - a digital camera with a telephoto lens.
