Sheila Strong
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher - Community College |
| Location | Blue Ridge Mountains of, North Carolina, United States |
| Introduction | FUN childhood in "old" Virginia Beach, VA (1950s and 60s); high school in Ohio and western New York (Finger Lakes region); years of office work until, in my mid-40s, I finished college, taught English in Cameroon for two years, and then completed grad school. While teaching in the public school system in Virginia Beach, I met and married my wonderful husband, Graham. We now live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where I teach at a community college, and we're active in community service projects (4-H, Master Gardeners, public school volunteering, and local outreach programs). |
| Interests | playing piano, guitar, dulcimer and pennywhistle; choral singing; listening to Celtic music (traditional instrumentals, not modern "rock" style), classical music, jazz standards from the 1930s & '40s, and "oldies" from the 1950s & '60s; reading nonfiction - especially history and travel writing; basketry and soap-making; sudoku, kakuro, set, and other brain teasers |
| Favorite movies | Ken Burns films, South Pacific, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Singing in the Rain, Oklahoma, Oliver, many UK films (Waking Ned Devine, for example), and believe it or not, The Love Bug - ONLY because of the scene at the stop light, with Michelle Lee trapped inside the little VW bug, frantically banging on Herbie's windows, yelling, "Help! I'm locked in!" The hippie sitting in the VW Microbus next to her at the stoplight leans out of his window and advises her, "We ALL prisoners, Chicky Baby ... we ALL locked up." |
| Favorite music | Celtic (traditional, played on acoustic instruments), classical, classic jazz (Brubeck et al.), bossa nova, oldies from the 1930s to the early 1960s |
| Favorite books | A partial list would include "A History of US" by Joy Hakim, "The Story of Science" by Joy Hakim, "Algebra Unplugged," and books by Stephen Hawking, Paul Theroux, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Mark Twain ... many more! |