Katie's (Japanese: Keiti, Chinese: Kaitai)  Philosophy on Life and Learning:

"It is never to late to be what you could have been." George Eliot
"You are never too old to learn." Anonymous

-  Master Sergeant (Hauptfeldwebel (click "Dienstgrade"), United States Air Force
   ( Detroit, Michigan,  Texas, New York,  Louisianna, Colorado, New Hampshire,  Nebraska, California in USA, Khorat in Thailand, Kadena AB on  Okinawa,
   and in Frankfurt/Main and Geilenkirchen, Germany)

 -   Frankfurt/Main International Airport, Germany
 -  Lahmeyer International GmbH, Germany**
 -   part-time English Tutor; University of Frankfurt, Germany

-   Associate of Science (A.S.), Community College of the Air Force
-   Associate of Arts (A.A.), University of Maryland, European Division
-   Bachelor of Arts (B.A. in German Language Studies), University of Maryland University College,  European Division
-   Dual Master's Degree: Adult Education  and Human Relations (M.Ed. & M.H.R.), University of  Oklahoma
 

Katie's Herstory cont'd 

Kenneth Marion Johnson, SSgt, USAF, Ret.:  No one ever made me laugh or cry -- or drive me nuts --  like you, Homeboy! 
"Mutzi" aka Josefine Mutzenbacher (1974-1995) in many ways you saved my life -- thanks, you golden-eyed furball!

THANKS!

* Big thanks to David Howell for giving me a job after retirement and Jean Howell for being my big sis! 
** After graduation in 1996, I worked at "Popeye's Chicken" in Hanau-Wolfgang before finding a new job.  What a learning experience!  Gracias, Harry! 
Also, thanks to L. Pascual, M. Taylor, G. Felgenhauer, E. Bellersheim, S. Schneider and family for encouraging me through those good and bad times!

TRAVELS

E. Looe, Liskeard & St. Cleer Cornwall UK,  Aarau Switzerland, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt,  Austria, Oerland Norway,  Puerto Soller on Mallorca, Spain, Renfrew in Scotland, London & Lincoln  England,  Taipei  Taiwan,  Osan and Seoul  Korea, Philippines,  Baja California & Tiajuana Mexico, Split/Yugoslavia, Paris France, Mons & Brussels Belgium, Denmark, Heerlen & Amsterdam the Netherlands,   Chiemsee

MEMBERSHIPS

 Midwesterners' Stammtisch,    Disabled American Veterans (life), Air Force Association (life), American CitizensAbroad (life), &  ACA Country Contact, Frankfurt English Theater,  Seacoast NOW (life),  AGISRA, TREA (life), Senckenberg Nature Research Society in Frankfurt/Main,   American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)

ADVENTURES  1962? Detroit - Being on local tv with my grade-school science project "How Rocks are made into Soil" (my Mom's idea)  Got a ribbon for it at a Detroit Science Fair. 1963-6? - Working 2 1/2 yrs as volunteer at  Mt Carmel Mery Hospital. 1963? - Winning $25 First Prize for a Memorial Day Poster Contest. 1964? - Winning recognition in a UNICEF (?) poster contest. 1965 - First of 3 High School letters for Basketball.   1967-St. Francis de Sales High School: teaching my high school's basketball captain how to play the guitar (in 1970/70 played a Gibson in pubs in Shreveport) , 1969 - Plattsburgh AFB, NY: Judo (quite when I broke Caroles's collar bone), 1970/1-Shreveport, LA: Shreveport Little Theatre (stage manager for John Wray & Mary Young and one-time actress!), 1971-Barksdale AFB Aero Club: First solo flight (Piper Cub), Rhein-Main Air Base: June 1985-ROCKETTES Women's Volleyball team, German-wide Champs (USAFE) and European Champs (CSC) - underdogs (only 7 players) undefeated in Iraklion, Greece!    1985/6-Frankfurt/Main, FRG:  "Prompt Schreibservice" First attempt at a German & English Typing Pool Business! 1986-Disneyland: Talking to Whoppi Goldberg - before her "Color Purple" fame. 1992-Rhein-Main Air Base: Writing, casting and directing my first play "Auslaender 'raus!" thanks to Monroe Coburn. 1993-Frankfurt/Main, FRG: "Tutoring" English to Ursula Patzschke Beutel, the FIRST T.V. Moderator in the World (check out Guinness)!

HOBBIES

Surfing www! favorite sites:  Kids' Japan,  Dictionaries,  Buddha Mind - for Kid's
Genealogy:  Pletscher, Pletcher, Aben, Johns and Toms/Trebilcock

SPORTS

Participatory: volleyball, ten pin bowling (WBA), basketball, fast and slow pitch softball, cross-country skiing, curling with Canadians in Valkenburg NL

Spectator: sumo, curling, sheepdog trials 

BOOKS & AUTHORS

 "The Buddha in  Daily Life" by Richard Causton, Desert Flower, The extrodinary journey of a desert nomad," "In Love and In Trouble,"  "Migrants, Immigrants and Slaves," "Report from Engine Co. 82," "Made in America," "Book," "Babyhood,"  "Understanding Europeans (2nd Edition)"  Alice Walker, Bill Bryson, Roal Dahl, Erma Bombeck, Edgar Allen Poe

MOVIES

"The Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz," "Carmen Jones," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," "As Good as it Gets," "Bogus"

ENTERTAINERS

MY BROTHER JIM - check out his voice; Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes,  Robin Williams, Tyler Perry, Morgan Freeman, John Candy, Denzel Washingtion, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson, W.C.Fields, Bill Cosby 
Coleen Dewhurst, Whoppi Goldberg, Angela Basset, Mae West, Lauren Bacall, Drew Barrymore; El DeGeneres
Moms Mabley,  George Carlin,  Red Foxx, Richard Pryor 

MUSIC, OPERAS & MUSICALS

Ramsey Lewis, Wes Montgomery, Grover Washington, Lou Rawls, Nancy Wilson, George Sample, Al Jarreau & David Sanborn/1984, Michel Petrucianni, Andreas Volenweider/1996, 
Glen Campbell/LA 1971, John Denver and Andres Segovia/CO 1971 & FRG 1997, Harry Chapin/1971, James Taylor FRG 1998 
David Foster, Yanni, John Tesch, Vangelis, Henry Mancini, Sadao Watanabe 
Luther Vandros, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Jamiroquai, Patti Labelle/Frankfurt & Essen 1986, Lionel Ritchie/Frankfurt 1986 & 1998, Dionne Warwick/Frankfurt 1987. 
Iron Butterfly/LSU 1971, Three Dog Night, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Jim Morrison and the Doors 
America, Crosby Stills and Nash, Loggins and Messina, Baclay James Harvest/FRG 1985, Allan Parsons Project. 
Stevie Wonder,/Frankfurt 1984, Jackson 5,  the Temptations, Driftwoods/1970, the Sylistics/1995, Earth Wind and Fire, the Commodores, Isley Brothers, Jackson Singers / Frankfurt 1997 
Joy Fleming/Mannheim 1984 & Offenbach 1995, Peter Maffay, Herbert Grönemeyer, Tic-Tac-Toe, Nina Hagen/Offenbach 1984 
Wadaiko-Japanese Drums/Frankfurt 1998 
MI-John Cougar-Mellencamp, LA-Johnny Cash & Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, GE-Pat Benatar, James Taylor. The War of 1812,  Peter and the Wolf, Jesus Christ Super Star/LA 1971, Johnny Cash & Glen Campbell; The Magic Flute/1997,  La Traviata/1998, Aida/1997, Die Fledermaus/1997, Freischutz/1999, Beauty and the Beast/1998, Haensel and Gretel/1991,  Marriage of Figaro/1998, Flying Dutchman/1999, Phantom of  Opera/Tornonto 1992, Cats/London 1997, Prisoner of 2nd Ave (Marsha Mason & Richard Dryfus)/London 1999, Mousetrap/London 1999, Papageno/FFM 1999, 200 = Natalie Choquette "La Diva", "Feet of Flames", Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Sir Peter Ustinov, Brighton Memoirs/Sylt / 2001 = Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Germany, Pat Metheney, Wynton Marsalis, Marlene Jaschke/Sylt, Soh Daiko, Welt Klaenge/2003, 2004 = "Body Worlds","Porgy and Bess", David Brubeck / 2002 = Lion King/London, Michael Mittermeier / 2005 = Bolero, Anastacia, Apassionata horse show, "Mama Mia", OTTO Walkes / 2007 "Bar at Buena Vista", "Bollywood Show", "Quadro Nuevo", Helge Schneider / Nokia Night of the Proms-Frankfurt 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008; "Blues in Pamengarten"