Therese LaFlamme
" Golden "

THERESE LaFLAMME is one of those people we are worried about - worried about how we can ever replace her. There is not enough space here to list all the assignments Therese handled while at Bapst, but we can mention the fact that she made singers out of a lot of Minstrel performers who would otherwise have squeeched out on the high ones. The marvel is not so much that she did all the piano playing for the show, but that she was always so patient and sweet about it. If we could make a presentation to an "All-Bapst Sweetheart" it would surely go to our Therese.

After High School I entered the Mercy Hospital Nursing program in Portland.

After graduating from Mercy, I married Jim Golden. We lived in the Bangor area for a few years while I worked at St. Joseph's until my third pregnancy and when my Daughter was a few weeks, old I moved to Amherst, NH, to join Jim who was working for Lockheed Missiles and Space company at a Satellite Tracking facility.

I placed my Nursing career on hold for full time "Mothering." In NH, we became a family of Campers and we traveled extensively throughout the US and Eastern Canada (20 years with a tent and a one wheeled trailer behind the car, a move up to a tent trailer and finally in 1984 to a Class A motorhome).

In 1964 we moved to California (Sunnyvale) where Jim continued with Lockheed, and in 1968 we moved to Southern Germany (with Lockheed), where we were fortunate enough to live for four years and were able to travel extensively throughout Europe.

Returned to California in 1972 --- and when my oldest was a Senior in High school and there was the prospect of having four children in college at the same time, I returned to College for a refresher in the field of Nursing that I had barely started years before.

I worked the next 16 years in Ortho-Neuro Spinal Cord injury nursing ... the only Nurse in a 250 bed hospital that continued to wear a white uniform and a Nurses' cap ... Can you picture the contrasting image with all the weird colored uniforms? of today's Nurses???

I retired from Nursing in 1992 at age 57 when my husband retired from Lockheed and we have traveled extensively
with the Motorhome since (in the U S and Western Canada). My
children are more spread out now in the US and Europe and more travel is necessary to see them and the Grandchildren.

I have always thought I was completely blessed to have 4
healthy, beautiful and above average children of my own, but
now that I am a Grandmother of 7, I find that my happiness
has expanded beyond all bounds.

Looking forward to seeing you all in September (if we can make it) ... regards ... THERESE