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-	FALL 2006 15	+	FALL 2006 Vol 10, No 4
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	and show my photographs at several local places.		and show my photographs at several local places.

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	and Grace, Rosaline’s older sister, a teacher in another school		and Grace, Rosaline’s older sister, a teacher in another school
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Rcollman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:24:04 GMT

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Autobiography by Barbara Tansey Bush (XI) 64-66

After I graduated from college in June 1964, I trained to be a
math teacher in the Northern Region with Nigeria XI and went to
Sapele in the Midwest Region to teach English and French in a
girls’ secondary grammar school. I went back to Nigeria shortly
after I left the Peace Corps. Soon after, in August 1967, the
Midwest was taken over by the Biafrans so I and many other
expatriates left for Lagos on freighters that had been docked at
Sapele. Several months later, I returned to Sapele. Once the
schools started up again, I taught in another girls’ school briefly
and then returned home for good.

I settled in Boston, MA in 1969. After leaving teaching, I got a
job as a mainframe computer programmer at an insurance
company. I spent the next 30 years working at various jobs in data
processing on IBM mainframes as a programmer, a systems
analyst, a systems programmer, and finally, a database
administrator at several Boston companies. Over the years, I
found that my Peace Corps experiences were very useful in my
work as each department was like a different culture with its own
language and orientation. In 2002, my mainframe job was moved
to another state so I retired.

In my last several years at my final job, Nigeria came back into
my life. A young Nigerian woman was hired for a new project and
we worked together. Efua was born the year I left Nigeria; her
father is Itsekiri (from the Sapele/Warri area) and her mother is
Ibo. It was such a pleasure to work with Efua and share our
experiences - mine in her country and hers in mine. Somehow it
brought my work life full circle working with this bright, articulate
woman on a technical project after having been a PCV in her
country. Also, at that job, I met Dave Crandall who had been in
Nigeria V and taught in the West Region. Every so often, we got
together to reminisce about Nigeria.

Several years after coming to Boston, I married but later
divorced. Then I married a man with three grown sons. Now I
am ‘Nana’ to six stepgrandchildren. Luckily they live nearby so I
can take them on ‘adventures’ often.

Retirement has been a pleasure. I have spent time tutoring at a
local family services center and volunteering in a local middle
school. Recently, I mentored a Somali Bantu refugee family of
nine for almost a year. Since only two members knew any
English, it was quite a challenge to help them get adjusted to life
here. Also, I spend time on various crafts, take singing lessons
and show my photographs at several local places.

[[Image:A_picture.jpg|Center|Thumb|250px
|Barbara then with Roseline Maduanusi, her student,
and Grace, Rosaline’s older sister, a teacher in another school
in Sapele, and friend of the Sapele PCVs]]
FALL 2006 15

Bio Barbara Tansey Bush - Revision history

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