
I enjoy reading the North Texan magazine as a former graduate. I am a middle school STEM teacher in Georgia and love to see the exciting innovation that UNT is leading for STEM. In my career, I've been on a weightless flight, worked with the Georgia Space Grant Consortium, and I am a NASA/SETI Airborne Astronomy Ambassador for Cycle 9. My husband, Chuck, who attended NTSU's graduate program for botany/plant biology from 1976 to 1978, has worked as director of regional and national operations with various professional lawn care corporations and media distribution services, and also was part owner of a local lawn care company for six years.
I also enjoy reading about the stories from former graduates and alums. My husband and I met at then-NTSU in 1976. We have been married since 1979. We met when he was a biology graduate student TA -- I had been assigned to his botany lab as a freshman, but we actually started dating later when we were both in an outdoors adventure club.
However, the story he loves to tell is why there were so many girls in my lab class that he taught. It turns out he and his buddy found out what sections they were going to teach. Back in those days, we had to register for classes in person. So, when he and his buddy manned the tables, they assigned all the girls to the sections they knew that they were going to teach.
Four kids later, with four grandchildren and one on the way this month, NTSU was instrumental in where we are today with both our education and our personal lives. Of our four grown children, three are teachers, and one also married a teacher.
We don't have the opportunity to go back to the campus, so I really appreciate hearing all that is happening there in your magazine. Thanks!
Tami McIntire ('79, '81 M.S.)
Marietta, Georgia