If I could change one thing about Madison: I would make Rafah a sister city
KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN: SUSAN BECKER
George Hesselberg, The Wisconsin State Journal, September 19, 2004
* Name: Susan Becker, born in Oxford, England. Her mother was evacuated to Oxford with all of the other pregnant women from London during the war. Her Scottish father and American mother moved to Selah, Wash., when she was a child. At age 35, because of diabetes, she received a kidney from her sister, Janet. She came to Madison for her dietician internship at the old University Hospital.
* Family: Husband and frequent co-volunteer, Radleigh.
* Age: 59.
* Occupation: Dietician, retired.
* Why is what you do important? With the Friends of International Students, we fill the need for friendship for students, who appreciated being included in life in Madison.
* Hobbies: Travel, gardening, cooking.
* Greatest Madison pleasure: Just being outside, on the Union Terrace, watching the sailboats.
* When friends come to Madison: We go to the Farmers’ Market.
* I love it when: I hear a beautiful bird song.
* Song I wish I could hear again: “The Song of the Children.”
* The last movie I saw was: “Gandhi.” We rented it for my birthday.
* First job: Car hop in Yakima, Wash. I didn’t last long, my feet hurt.
* A top issue in my field is: Lack of health insurance.
* If I could change one thing about Madison: I would make Rafah a sister city.
* Person I admire most: Opal Kingsbury, the most caring woman I ever met.
* Ideal vacation: Camping in northern Wisconsin, Copper Falls.
* What I miss most from my childhood: Farm living, fresh fruit.
* I’ve always envied: ‘Envy’ is not a word I use.
(Opal Kingsbury, Susan Becker’s most admired person, was a retired Madison school librarian who died Sept. 1 at the age of 96. Her obituary described her with a prayer: “Lord may my life help the other lives it touches on the way.”)
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Leah L. Jones – State Journal
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Cite this article
“KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN: SUSAN BECKER.(DAYBREAK)(KNOW YOUR MADISONIAN)(Column).” The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI). McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. 2004. Retrieved November 15, 2009 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-122323898.html
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