Diane La Gasse McGee

Email address:  diane.c.mcgee@usace.army.mil

Birthdate:  04-09-46

Family

Married?  yes  Married years?  29  Married times?  1

Children:  1 boy(s); girl(s); grandkid(s)

Personal/family website?

Job

Company:  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Career/Job Title:  Realty Specialist/Government Real Estate, Management & Disposal (Military)

Company website: 

Hobbies:  Reading/Glass Blowing

Community:  

How are you the same as you were at CHS?   Still believe in six impossible things before breakfast every day.

How are you different? Am not as sure as I used to be that those impossible things will come true.

What is your proudest accomplishment?  Graduation from Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California as Russian Linguist for U.S. Navy

Where do you live?  house in the suburbs

Parents:  Father: deceased,  Mother: deceased

What have you been up to for the last 45 years?

Foothill Junior College, CA 1964-1965; Pharmaceuticals (CA) 1965-1966 (Secretary); Lockheed Missiles and Space, CA 1966-1968 (Admin); Pacific Telephone, CA 1968-1972 (Marketing Rep); De Anza College, CA 1973-1974

U.S. Navy Boot Camp, Orlando, FL 1974; Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA 1974-1975 (Russian) (met future husband); U.S.A.F. Cryptologic School, San Angelo, TX 1975

Married to Bill McGee (U.S. Navy) November 1975; U.S. Navy (Russian Linguist/Soviet Analyst) 1975-1978 (Active Duty in Spain with husband); U.S. Naval Reserve, Special U.S. Liaison Officer Unit, Cheltenham, England 1978-1981 (Husband stationed in Cheltenham)

University of Maine 1981-1983 (Husband at U.S. Naval Station, Maine); Homemaker 1983-1984 (Brunswick, Maine); Gave birth to our son, Scott (May 1985) at age 39 (after 6 miscarriages over 7 years)(tied for proudest accomplishment)

Homemaker 1985-1987 (Gaithersberg, MD) (Husband at Naval Security Group HQ, Washington, DC) Dept. of the Navy, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Bath, ME 1987-1990 (Secretary to Deputy Supervisor and Staff) (Husband stationed in Maine again)

Homemaker 1990-1994 Cheltenham, England (Husband stationed in Cheltenham again); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, Nebraska 1994-present (Realty Specialist). Husband retired/works as Omaha Police Officer now.

Son is in school and doing fine . . . except for the lip ring and 4 ear rings

 

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