(... continued from page 1)

She was selected for training on the Joint Chiefs of Staff World Wide Military Command and Control System in Biloxi, Mississippi and went there for training. As the only Army woman on an Air Force base, and wearing green, she was often stopped and asked if she was a girl scout.

She was sent to Heidelberg, Germany and after finishing her masters was commissioned at her unit’s Christmas Party in the Medical Service Corps as a Biomedical Information Services Officer.

Starting her European tour all over she moved to Karlsruhe, Germany where she taught school at night for the City Colleges of Chicago.

She was selected to be the Commander of the first tactical mobile computer center serving the army medical community for all of Europe and entertained her restless soldiers by holding forklift races in the snow in Pirmasens, Germany.

She returned to the United States and was stationed at Walter Reed working first as the project officer to engineer and install data communications systems in all of the Army’s Medical Centers, then to do the site preparation for the computer systems at the medical centers, and finally on the source selection evaluation board for the Composite Health Care System, a multi-billion dollar healthcare information system that is still operational in military medical treatment centers today.

She was selected for the US Army-Baylor program in Health Care Administration and did her residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

She served for a year at Health Services Command negotiating medical agreements for the beneficiary population and then went to Fort Gordon, Georgia as the CIO for the Army’s South East Medical Region covering seven states and Puerto Rico.

In Augusta, she bought an old house in Country Club Estates on the National (her golf game is embarrassing, and no, she’s not a member). She is currently restoring that house and plans to one day turn it into a bed and breakfast.

[ Next  >> ]