Linda Clark:

I married immediately after graduating high school and moved to University of Virginia where I worked to “put hubby through.” The marriage ended after 10 years and I began a series of jobs to support my two young sons. Two jobs stand out as most interesting and fun: Administrative Assistant at WTAR-TV where I met many local/national celebrities and did voice-overs for commercials and as a paralegal for the same firm with Conrad Shumadine (Class of 1959). During this time, my childhood dream of becoming a nurse was still strong and at the age of 40 I went back to school and graduated with an RN from Norfolk General Hospital School of Nursing.

I retired in 2007, after 23 years at Norfolk General as a Preop/Recovery nurse in the Outpatient Surgical Department. That same year, I married a wonderful man, Bruce Simmons that I met through eHarmony. Bruce is a civil engineer with a local firm.

My son, Michael, is a construction supervisor and has given me three grandsons, Joshua, John and Brian; and my son, David, just retired from the Navy as a TopGun instructor and has given me two beautiful granddaughters, Dargan and Delaney.

I now work flex at the ambulatory surgery center in Virginia Beach and am active in First Baptist Church Norfolk in missions, most recently to Uruguay.