Harriette Fraser:

Since my leaving PAHS, I graduated from Madison College and taught art in the Prince William County School System for 5 years. I worked for the National Park Service as a park guide (No Smokey the Bear Hat) helping with the park map and directing tourists and travelers in and around D.C. I took a sabbatical from Prince William County to get my Masters from Penn State and returned to help launch the year round school program. Several years later I received a call one evening from Dr. Charles Downs, provost of Frederick Campus, offering me an opportunity to teach art at Tidewater Community College, a position I held for 33 years before retiring as Associate Professor. During the TCC years, I married my wonderful husband Burt; adopted two children Gary and Dorothy; have one granddaughter with another on the way; hosted 13 foreign exchange students, a professor from Prague and a teacher from Japan; traveled North, South, East and West and across the Big Pond several times. We sold our home in Portsmouth, VA and moved to a retirement community, Lake Prince Woods, Suffolk, VA. In 2006 the program director of Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts asked me to help start the ceramic program. I did start it and teach the classes there. I’m still having fun doing what I love teaching and pottery.