This picture of Sue in front of the princess castle at Disney World is the earliest that was available when Ken created this bio. Hopefully it's close enough to what she looked like when attending Penncrest that you'll recognize her.

Sue has changed careers three times. Sue directed staff as the head nurse in several different hospital operating rooms while Ken was sailing. She still runs her custom sewing business "Sewfully Sue," which flourished in the 1980's. Then she was elected to the Harford County Council, the legislative branch of County government where she and Ken live in Maryland. Sue is renown for getting elected to office spending less than $200. She did it three consecutive times and won her last election spending only the $25 required by the Board of Elections. She lost her last run for office by 65 votes but the opposition had to spend a lot to defeat her. Sue and a fellow councilwoman created the first "tree bill" in the county which has had an impact on the quality of developments and recovery of some tree-less space in the county, it still serves as a national reference. She served on committees for MACO (the Maryland Association of Counties) and NACO (National Association of Counties) so she was spending more time away from home than Ken would care for. He didn't complain though; she really enjoyed it.

As with most people that find a hobby which takes over their lives, Ken and Sue have an avocation that leaves them little time for anything outside work. Licensed to band birds by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, they spend much of their time in the woods. September and October you will find them on top of the Allegheny Front Mountain in West Virginia at AFMO (the Allegheny Front Migration Observatory) where they join many other volunteers to band the warblers migrating from Canada on their way to the southern states, Central and South America. Here she's holding a Golden Winged Warbler.

Sue continues to do service for the community. She spends one or two days each week teaching the county's fifth grade students about bird banding at the Harford Glen Environmental Education Center near their home in Joppa. Here she shows the students the meanest bird in the world, a Carolina Chickadee. She serves on the County's Budget Advisory Board among other activities.

May 20, 1998, Ken and Sue were acknowledged by the Susquehannock Environmental Center (the first organization to promote recycling) as their 1998 "Environmental Volunteers of the year."

Currently Sue and Ken are in south Texas, enjoying 80 degree days and fresh fruit while relaxing in their motorhome. They're trying to stay in a pleasant environment, visiting Florida and other points south in the winter and Canada in the summer. Spring and Fall they're doing their volunteer work at home.