Valerie Gilmore (Valerie Farkas)

Melvindale High School

Class of 1980

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Valerie Farkas - Class of 1980 - Melvindale High School

First Name	Valerie
Last Name	Gilmore
Maiden Name	Farkas
Graduation Year	Class of 1980
Gender	Female
City	N/A
State/Province	MI
Country	United States
Occupation	Homemaker
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	There are a lot but performing the Funky Chicken after girls athletic events on the bus ride home; I owe it all to Karen Pinkowski. I still remember our adjective and adverb cheer created during Mr. Rinna's English class (LOL).
About Me	After graduation, I worked the summer as a teacher aide at Dasher Elementary School for the kindergarten class, part time at "Burger Chef" to help pay college expenses at Detroit College of Business (speech class was horrifying for me), kept the clock for girls and boys basketball (jv&varsity). Worked for three home health care agencies and then found my nitch at CDI (computer company) where I started as a clerk typist/receptionist and kept getting promoted eventually to the administrative assistant to the president and worked also as the Ventura form maker. I forget to mention; this is also where I met my future husband and married in 1994. I left CDI (daughter--dob 1995) was 2 yrs old) Because I landed a "newly created position" with New Horizons (computer training) as admin asst to the son and owner. I didn't stay too long because I wanted to raise my dtr when separation anxiety got the best of me (so glad I did!). I then worked part-time in the evening doing data entry while my husband took care of our dtr. After having our son (dob--1...(read more)