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I've lived in Illinois all my life. Here's my family before we all grew up. My travels haven taken me from San Diego, CA [where I visited my daughter Caryn and her husband Brian during the spring break of 2001] to Laurel, MD [where I visited them spring break 2002 ] and enjoyed almost every trip in between [Annapolis, MD] Of course, visits to Colorado are also close to my heart. If you're wondering why Caryn and Brian move so much check out this picture, taken from the deck of the USS Richard Bon-Homme.

The High Energy Physics Group (HEPG) at the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign is where I spend my days. I've been at the University of Illinois for twenty years. Spending most of my time on the engineering campus. The Coordinated Science Lab was a unit I spent eight years with and made some wonderful friendships. They celebrated 50 years of excellence in 2001.

My son Phil is a freelance artist and illustrator of such books as the New Atlas of Human Anatomy, which you can find at Barnes & Noble. Enjoy some of his paintings. Here are two pictures that hang in my office in 441 Loomis and are also for sale (support the starving artist). Or contact him. Phil did the art work for the advertising poster for the Urbana Park District summer (2004) musical production, Kala, thank you Phil!

I've begun a two new hobbies scrapbooking and piece quilting. I've finished piecing my first quilt and have begun my second. Now to tackle quilting the first, do I hand or machine quilt. My favorite local fabric store... JoAnn Fabrics, they got me hooked on quilting with their quilt block of the month. In July I went on the Quilt Shop Hop with several friends and found new quilt shops in central Illinois from Rantoul (NEEDLE & I, on the old base) to Mattoon. I am really looking forward to the Shop Hop again this year. Already have gone to the Chicago quilt show held at the Rosemont. Then on to the BIG show at the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, KY. What wonderful fabric I found at Hancocks of Paducah and we only had one hour to spend in that wonderful store or miss the bus.

I am also a member of Psi Iota Xi, a sorority for women, 18 and older, and interested in supporting our local grade/high school and libraries. At our April meeting I was voted Psi Ote of the year (2005), thank you ladies for this honor. Through fund raising we can help keep programs which might otherwise be cut completely going. And add books to our local libraries which they might not be able to afford with the State of Illinois "budget crisis". Our last fund raising project was selling frozen rolls from the Beef House in Indiana, what a great fundraiser. Psi Iota Xi Soroity was founded in Muncie, IN in 1897 - the first organization of its kind in Indiana and has grown to approximately 150 chapters with approximately 5,000 active members in Illinois, Indiana, kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. Contact me, dguzy@uiuc.edu, if you'd like to hear more or join us.

Last update 4/05