Becky+Moore

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Address in Phillips: 115 Phillips Avenue
==Post High School Education and/or Professional Certification: I graduated from Texas A&M with a BS degree in Soil Science. I worked for the US Soil Conservation Service in Fort Worth for a year and then moved in 1977 to Alaska to be with a boyfriend who was working on building the Trans-Alaska oil pipeliine, planning to stay a year until he left. When the time to leave came, he left and I stayed (in Valdez) working for a tiny air taxi operator. == ==Through that job I got to know the air traffic control personnel who worked in the control tower there. They encouraged me to apply and I was accepted by the Federal Aviation Administration. I was sent to a tiny Flight Service Station (Bettles, AK) 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle, with a population of 75+/- and no roads in/out. That job consisted of providing weather observations and various other information for pilots, but no actual control. == ==When Reagan fired the Air Traffic controllers in 1981, I had been there for almost 2 years, The agency moved me to the Control Tower option and I worked at Fairbanks as a controller. I moved to Anchorage and became a quality assurance specialist. In 1988 I went back to Fairbanks as a supervisor. In 1989 I was promoted to Tower Chief at Juneau (Alaska's capital). In 1994 I got a position based at the DFW Airport in a Air Traffic Facility Evaluations office. This was very fun because I traveled every other week to a facility (usually for a 1-week eval, sometimes 2-weekers for the bigger facilities). I traveled in the jumpseat in the cockpit and got to see most of the country. After almost 3 years there, I realized one of the reasons I had left Texas -TOO DARNED HOT, especially after living in Alaska for 14 years. In 1995 I bid on and was promoted to the Deputy Chief position at the Seattle-Tacoma Control Tower and Approach Control. It was there that I finally met the man that I wanted to marry, and we did so in Jan, 1997. == ==A couple of years later I was diagnosed with a very painful and fatiguing illness called fibromyalgia. Finally, I realized that I couldn't work any more. I had earlier years of Federal Government time (3 years working as a student clerk typist - $2.35 an hour! - during my college years, and the one year with the Soil Conservation Service). That time, and my longest fed job with the FAA totaled 25 year, which allowed me to retire at age 46. It is hard to have to leave a job before you are ready, especially if you derive a great deal of your self-worth from that job. But with the help of a great therapist and a fabulous doctor who treats only fibromyalgia patients, I have accepted my fate and now truly enjoy being retired. My husband retired on a normal retirement in 2003. ==

Family:
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 * Married to John MacKinnon (my first/only marriage at age 44 - I kept my maiden name)
 * Children: John has 2 daughters (Jennifer and Kate) and a son (Mike). The son is the only one married right now (to Amelia). They are wonderful kids and accepted me very graciously as their step-mother (we do joke about evil or wicked step-mothers, i.e. in fairy tales - at least I think they are joking. ;-)
 * Grandchildren: Mike and Amelia have given us two beautiful granddaughters, ages 5 1/2 and 4. They are my joy.
 * Others: Sister Merilou lives in Portland, OR. She is divorced and gave us our amazing niece Clancy who is graduating college in August with a 4.0 GPA. Sister Tracy shares my medical problems along with some more severe, has just left her job and is en route moving to Florida for the better climate. She is a lesbian and has a long-time partner who will move down with her in a few months. Brother Robby married, adopted his wife's 3-year-old son, Kris, and they had another son, Teddy, a couple of years later. Teddy is married and has his own baby, Madilyn Rose. My mom remarried after my parents divorced in the 70's. She and her husband live on Lake Sweetwater out in west Texas.
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Where have you lived since high school? See my voluminous answer at the top which contains those locations.

Current occupation: Happily retired, enjoy reading, gardening, babysitting grandgirls, and do volunteer work with the Meals on Wheels program and the Auburn Senior Center Advisory Council.

Best career move? Probably the last one to Seattle, because I met my husband there and it has been a beautiful place to live.

Most embarrassing moment in high school? Getting called to Mr. Kimmons office so often (at least weekly it seemed) to have the my hemline measured and then being sent home to change when it was higher than 3 inches. There may have been one or two other more embarrassing moments, but this is the only one to which I will admit...

Most embarrassing moment since high school? Sorry, not telling this one ;P

Best memory of living in Phillips and Phillips High School? Living in a small enough town to know everyone, to walk to all my friends' houses, to just leave and have Mom say "be home for supper" and she never knew or worried about where I was. I loved playing in the park & Dixon Creek, driving "all the way into Borger" to visit the drive-ins, supporting our football and basketball teams. Best of all - the great friends! I am truly grateful that I let myself be talked into going on Facebook because I have reconnected with so many of these friends. I am so looking forward to seeing everyone again!