Peggy Oliver (Peggy Fish)

Boone High School

Class of 1967

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First Name	Peggy
Last Name	Oliver
Maiden Name	Fish
Graduation Year	Class of 1967
Gender	Female
Current Location	Ankeny, Iowa
Hometown	Boone
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	After graduating and spending one year at Boone Jr. College, I married and we set off for Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. We were there for 9 years working on graduate degrees. March 1977 found us living in a Houston, Texas, suburb because my husband had a job after just one year with a post-doctoral appointment at Purdue after completing his doctoral degree in nuclear physics. I was on my way to my doctorate in English. I had completed my qualifying exams and had only to write my dissertation. That never was completed because we had a 2-yr-old daughter who needed me more than I needed that plaque to hang on a wall. I spent 14 years as an at-home-Mom, but divorced in 1989 and began teaching part-time at two community colleges, and in 1993 I began a full-time teaching position at a multi-campus community college in the NASA part of Houston. In fact, a 95-year-old woman at my church lived next door to the John Glenn family! Glenn's wife was her b...(read more)