Name of Classmate: Jackson, Lanng Lorre Lei Married to: Jackson, John Davies (deceased) 45 years
Further Educational accomplishments: RN, Charity Hospital School of Nursing, BS in Nursing, LSU
Family history: 3 daughters, one son-Ashley, Hilary, Lindsey and John. All married, all financially independent.
5 grandsons-Piers, Jackson, John Harrison, John Michael and Charles Ryan,
1 granddaughter-Ellie Reagan
Achievements and Occupational History: Managed
husband’s neurosurgical practice, became political activist and served 4 years
on AMA’s PAC board as only female, only non-physician member. Following
my diagnosis in 1991 I transferred activism to eradication of breast cancer. Served as consumer advocate on Dept. of Defense,
UCLA, and Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research grant proposal committees.
Served 4 years as a board member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
Was honored by and featured on cover of MAMM magazine along with 49 other
men and women “making a difference” in breast cancer advocacy. Began
a new chapter in my life when I lost my husband in 2007. Survived a
funeral and 2 weddings all within 5 weeks. In the following year I sold
a car, bought another one (a hybrid), redecorated the master bedroom and bath,
re-landscaped the front yard, learned about managing and selling timber, took
a cruise and traveled to DC, Denver, Louisville and San Diego. Since
my husband died in 2007, I've continued to travel: China, Tibet, Tunisia the
year before the Arab Spring and cruise-New England, Canary Islands, Mediterranean,
Sicily and Malta, Singapore to Hong Kong, French Polynesia this October, and
Holland to Budapest is scheduled for July 2015.
Fortier Reunions attended: All
Other
personal comments: Try to live my life so that each
morning when I wake up and put my feet on the floor, Satin says, “Oh S___!
She’s awake again!” Following is an Edith Wharton quote, which I’m trying
to incorporate into my philosophy of life: “In spite of illness, in spite even of
the arch enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration
if one is Unafraid of Change, Insatiable in intellectual curiosity, Interested
in big things, And happy in small ways”.
Lorre Lei Lanng Jackson
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