Carole Friedman (Professional name: Carole Ferrand; nickname: Callie)

1967-1971: Wits University, majored in English, Italian, and German.

1971: joined Boswell-Wilkie Circus as pigeon trainer. That lasted for 2 weeks.

1974: met my American husband-to-be (then called Ed, now re-named Ted) on the number 20 bus in Hillbrow (he had hitched from Kenya to Joburg by way of Europe and Israel).

1975: married Ed/Ted (or as my disgruntled ex-boyfriend Geoff put it, "that American creature").

1977: emigrated to the United States. Lived in Brooklyn, NY for 2 years.

1978: decided to go for a Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology at Pennsylvania State University.

1981: completed degree and moved to Bakersfield California (major mistake, unless you like riding ATVs and tearing up the environment while drinking beer).

1983: fled back east to Penn State.

1984: decided to go for PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

1985: son Matt was born (now finishing up a second degree in Electrical Engineering, having spent 6 years as an officer in the Air Force. Lives in Colorado).

1989: finished PhD and obtained faculty position at Hofstra University in New York. Currently Chair of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, and Director of our master's and doctoral programs. I have published 4 textbooks, 2 of which are widely used nationally in speech-language programs. It has been a wonderful career, and I will retire at the end of December 2017. Ted and I plan to move to Colorado.

What I love to do: read historical fiction, enjoy the outdoors, sing in a women's barbershop chorus.