Arlene B.'s profile

Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting women for networking

Education

• Northern Illinois University, Education/Special Education - 1964 to 1968
• Evanston High School - 1960 to 1964
• Northeastern Illinois University, Learning Disabilities - 1970 to 1972

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Arlene Avery Burke, born in Evanston, Illinois, holds a Bachelor degree in elementary and special education from Northern Illinois University and a Masters degree in Learning Disabilities and Educational Administration. 

 

Ms. Burke was an educator in Illinois and Georgia for seventeen years working also as a consultant and supervisor. In 1987 she continued her career for another eighteen years as a Senior Client Representative and Educational Consultant in the IBM Midwestern Education Industry Unit from which she retired in 2005.  She as published one book, a baby boomer memoir called Nothin’ Like I Thought…A Baby Boomer’s Look in the Rear View Mirror and plans to publish a second, an adult fiction novel called Quid Pro Quo.  Ms. Burke also has short story, “Who Let the Dogs Out” published, August 2007, in Chicken Soup for the Child’s Soul.  A children's book, Grandma's Fairy Tale Museum, co-authored with Phyllis McAllister Hamilton will be published and available in August of 2009.

Activities

Writing, gardening, reading, traveling, playing bridge

Favorite Music

Old school from the sixties, country and western

Favorite TV Shows

CSI, Dancing with the Stars, Sell this House, Law and Order, Will & Grace

Favorite Movies

anything with Morgan Freeman, Denzell Washington, Kathy Bates or George Clooney

Favorite Books

Wildfire, Night Fall, Audacity of Hope, Lies and the Lying Liars to tell them, Second Sunday, Nothin' Like I Thought, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Secret Life of Bees, The Color Purple

Favorite Quotes

Heroes are people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

Favorite People

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Donna Brazile, Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow

Favorite Places

Sedona, AZ Beaver Creek, CO

Favorite Animals

dogs especially goldens

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