Beth Pickle (Beth Sasseen)

Bakersfield High School

Class of 1978

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First Name	Beth
Last Name	Pickle
Maiden Name	Sasseen
Graduation Year	Class of 1978
Gender	Female
City	N/A
State/Province	AR
Country	United States
Occupation	Teacher/Real Estate Developer
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Oh wow.....way too many! Probably goiing to Mizzou with Mrs. Kattleman and Alice and Sandra for an FHA meeting my sophomore year. It was a fun trip and I met lots of new friends. We stayed in dorm rooms and were there for a few days.
About Me	I went to college at SMS, majoring in Art, lived in a dorm and did the whole college experience. After a year, I dropped out of college to marry a wonderful man (we've been married almost 30 years now!) and become a mom to his little boy. We moved back home (Udall), but after awhile, I decided to go back to college. I attended the SMS branch in West Plains and decided to go into education b/c that was the easiest degree to get in WP. Probably the best thing that ever happened to me! It changed my life! I graduated in 1985 and began teaching back at Bakersfield. In 1987, I had a baby and that changed my life again.....I decided that I wanted to become a full-time mom. I "retired" from teaching and did not go back as a full-time teacher for 13 years!!! I did a lot of substitute teaching during that time and learned as much or more about teaching than I had learned in college. Four years after my son was born, I had my daughter. When she was eight and my son was twelve, I went back to teaching full-time and did that for the next nine years, but then I decided to "retire" from teaching once again. My husband and I formed a real estate development company and I wanted to spend more time with that, plus there were other avenues that I had not yet explored and I just couldn't devote the time I wanted to these while teaching. I have recently begun subbing again. No lesson pla...(read more)