Nancy Torbush Shipley 264 Lehman Drive Cogan Station, PA 17728 570-326-4363 rnshipley@gmail.com
Spouse:
Roger Douglas Shipley ‘64
Children:
Jennifer, Jason, Bryan
Grandchildren:
Amelia, Ariana, Tyler
I have loved every part of my life. After growing up 20 miles from New York City, I traveled to Ohio in 1961 to the QPV. I learned so much those four years about myself as well as academics. My teaching career was varied in locations and in students, starting in a large metropolitan area (Fairfax, VA) to a small blue-collar town (Pontiac, MI), a mid-sized rural city (Williamsport, PA), a tiny four-room country school, and culminating at an ungraded parent-run alternative school. You really do learn by doing. Simultaneously, I lived an adventurous life with my husband, Roger. After his graduating in 1964 and doing graduate studies in art, he came back to Otterbein for a May Day Blind Date – me. We’ve lived in north central Pennsylvania, Williamsport, as Roger has been a professor of art at Lycoming College for 43 years. We moved into a farmhouse with 10 acres surrounded by fields and woodland. Here our daughter and twin sons were born. We immersed ourselves in organic gardening and environmental awareness. We swam and skated on our pond and had to plow ourselves out in the winter. Eminent domain landlocked us for a highway and we became suburbanites. I worked at a regional bank and then a county library. Kids graduated from college. With Roger’s art, we all grew up at art exhibitions and galleries and traveling abroad and in the U.S. We now have four acres of woods and gardens to tend and still travel a lot. Ironically, all three children live back on the East Coast along the I-95 corridor, D.C., Virginia, and Florida, and lifetimes begin again. Perhaps the grandchildren will move to the country.