As Class Agent for the Class of 1984, I decided it would be fitting to feature the Class President from our Senior year, Loucretia (Ball) Campos. Loucretia was one of my best friends in academy, and when we went on to SAU we were roommates. We have laughed together and cried together, and we remain good friends. So, without further ado – here’s an update on Lou! (Ha!) -Salli (Spaulding) Jenks

I can’t believe how the time has flown yet I still feel so very much a part of the Fletcher Class of 1984! Lots of things have changed, happened, and yet very nicely remain the same. As far as an update on me, I would say I am exactly the person I was leaving Fletcher, just older, wiser and with a much more humbled (and hopefully larger) heart.

I reside in Ormond Beach, FLA where I have been since I left the experiences of Fletcher and that of Southern College in 1988. My life paced me near the beach to a CPA firm in a nice up-rise building that overlooked the ocean and the Halifax River and I worked for several years in public accounting gaining tremendous experience both professionally and personally where I traveled throughout the U.S. In 1994, I decided that I needed to change jobs and was deliberately placed by God, I know now, with a property management company working for an amazing German Entrepreneur, who groomed me as his new Chief Financial Officer.

As many of you know, I met and married my husband around this time, at the ripe age of 30! Six years later I would found myself pregnant and soon would learn that God’s intention for my life wasn’t necessarily the same one I had envisioned. I had a child on my hands, quit my dream job, and began a new history of my life. Two years later, I would go through a divorce, learn how to manage life with an infant on my own, and ultimately would be called back to work from the same man that had hired me just years prior.

We all have different stories, and all of them affect each of us uniquely. For me, having this child was the most difficult adventure of my life. Taking on a divorce became a new life “degree” that at the pits ultimately landed me back in church, after years of not going.

Vincent and I reside still in Ormond Beach where he is now 6 and attends a Jewish school. I have been ever blessed by the ability to maintain my surroundings and raise this boy by the fact that the same German man honors both my brain and ability to balance my ever hectic life. It’s a daily struggle – but ultimately I am the most blessed woman! And I praise God for what He continues to do in my life!

Over the course of the years, I have reminisced about our class and re-read my president’s speech that appears in the annual. I laugh because it is so poorly written, yet the sincerity with which the words were spoken were then and still remain true. This class has remained a part of my life – each of you individually yet jointly a force I call back on at times and smile.

With love, Loucretia