Remembering Beth Marie

Beth Marie was so good to work with.  She came to work in the morning cheerful, was always wonderfully organized.  Her desk was so neat that you could see what material it was constructed of, she was knowledgeable about things I knew nothing about (starting with e-rate), and those were only some of her good qualities.  But she did share one trait with me.  Before I was going to retire in March 2002, Beth Marie and I decided we should weed the files so I would not bequeath to someone else files organized in way that wouldn't make sense.  So Beth Marie bought a kitchen timer and we were to spend 15 minutes every day working on files.  But she threw the directions away with the packaging, and neither one of us could figure out how to make the timer work.  We took that as a sign the files were to be left as they were.