Gratitude: Day FOUR

ann tanner… love this woman.

1996 – i had just moved to provo from home.
it was a big adjustment for me.
i am a homebody who loves the security of home and parents and family.
i lived with a bunch of wild girls at Liberty Square
(though my room-roommate was the one good and super sweet gal.)
i was trying to figure out where my place was.

enter… ann tanner, my new boss in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Best words to describe her… a real delight.
She has a great laugh… a light heart… and a great attitude.
The last place she wanted to be was working with a bunch of engineers in an office with no light.
All she wanted there was a window… a bit of sunshine in that Clyde building.

But… what she really wanted to do was to be home enjoying family… quilting… and other such home life projects. (She made me a really neat silhouette of children swinging. really neat talent.)

Instead she endured all those engineers… emotional secretaries who were figuring out their life (that would be me), and enjoying the fun secretary (that would be Stephanie).

Anyhoo… I love Ann. She was a dear friend who really did fill my life with LIGHT. I admire her optimism and sense of humor. I love when she would say that people were ‘ornery’. She said it like it was spelled and that was new to me (i always said it like ‘awnry’). She laughed at me when I didn’t know who Tom Cruise was. Oh, she laughed.

Good times with Ann Tanner in the ECEn Department. Good times.

Ann Tanner, Carol Memmott, Heather Price

p.s. dear stephanie, johanna, and stacey… thank you for forcing… yes, forcing me… to grow out my bangs. it was a good choice. love, me.