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Update 03/09/2006
Jennelou Earnhardt and David Wright both grew up in West End, in southwest
Atlanta, Georgia. Jennelou went to Joel Chandler Harris Elementary, and David attended Frank L. Stanton Elementary. They both attended Joe Brown High School and graduated in the class of 1958.
Jennelou attended North Georgia College, Mercer University and
Georgia State. Afterwards, she trained at Crawford Long and became a licensed
X-Ray technician. She worked several years in Atlanta at Holy Family Hospital and for a prominent firm of Atlanta doctors. David graduated from The University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee
with a degree in German and then spent three years in the U.S. Army where
he learned Russian. After the Army, he taught both languages at Georgia State
University.
At the 8th Brown High class reunion in 1966, Jennelou and
David started dating and were married that Fall. They spent the first two years
in Bloomington, Indiana where David was working on a Master's degree in Linguistics
at Indiana University. Jennelou, due to her x-ray experience, was hired as the Executive Secretary of the Bloomington
Office of the Tuberculosis Association. Their first son, David
Jr. was born in November of 1967 immediately prior to their return to Atlanta
where David worked on a second Master's in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. During
this time Jennelou worked for Retail Credit where she was actively involved in Retail Credit's testing and implementation of a new computer system. David and Jennelou's second son, John was born
in July of 1969.
They lived two years in Exton, Pennsylvania when David worked for Burroughs Corporation and another two years in Columbia, Maryland where he worked for the Rouse Company. Leaving Maryland, they went to Phoenix, Arizona and after three years there returned to Dalton, Georgia. During this time, Jennelou was able to devote all of her time to raising their two sons. After returning to Georgia, David taught computers at Dalton Junior College for three years. He ran his own company, and worked in Chattanooga for a couple of years, and then went to work for the Georgia State Department of Public Health at the District Office in Dalton and continued with them until his retirement. Jennelou worked several jobs before becoming a designer for a rug manufacturer in Dalton. She is no longer able to work due to health reasons. She continues with her art work, painting and doing embroidery. Some of her recent work, including embroidered icons, may be seen here.
They have lived in Chatsworth, Georgia, 13 miles east of Dalton since the 'great blizzard' of '93
David retired July 1, 2006 from the Georgia Department of Public Health with 21 years service. He is enjoying his time at home with Jennelou, writing articles, several of which have been published in The Heinlein Journal and in ETC, the journal of the Institute of General Semantics, doing a couple of other projects and occasionally helping some friends in cleaning their PCs from spyware and viruses.
In 1982 Jennelou converted to the Orthodox Church in America
at the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension in Resaca, Georgia. David Jr. and
John followed shortly thereafter and David Sr. joined about a year later.
Following Orthodox practice, they took new names, at time of reception into the
church, Theodora(Jennelou), Paul(David Sr.), Constantine(David Jr.) and Matthew(John).
Jennelou and David Sr. currently attend church at Our Lady, Joy of All Who
Sorrow Russian Orthodox Church in Cumming, Georgia. David-Constantine and David Sr. are both tonsured(ordained) readers.
David-Constantine received his Bachelor's from Sewanee. He did some graduate work at Vanderbilt University and then went to seminary at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary not far from New York city and received his Master's in Divinity from there. He did postgraduate work at UGA working towards a Master's in Religion and taught Latin at High School in Orangeburg, S.C. during the 1998-99 school year. He returned to Athens in May of 1999 and began teaching in August at Towers High School and Peachtree Middle School in DeKalb County. He then spent a year in Felton, CA before moving back to Athens, GA where he now lives permanently and is employed full-time by the Library of The University of Georgia. He will complete his Master's in Library Science in 2009. He is a member of St. Philothea Parish in Athens of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Atlanta
John received his Bachelor's from Berry College in Rome, Georgia and his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Georgia. He taught Drama at Westridge, a private girls' school in Pasadena California, for three years. He lived at home in Chatsworth for a year while working for Chattanooga's Channel 3 television and then for WBLJ radio in Dalton. He also worked as a substitute teacher for local schools during the 1998-99 school year. He was awarded a teaching assistantship at LSU and received his Ph.D in November 2006.
He and Mona Suzanne May of Baton Rouge were married February 14, 2003.
She was a teacher in a parochial school there,
They moved to Wisconsin in late July/August 2004 where he is University Theatre Director and Assistant Professor of
Communication Arts at the Freshman/Sophomore campus of the University of Wisconsin in
Manitowac, Wisconsin.
Mona teaches in a local parochical school.
They have a website here.
Family Thanksgiving 1998 Pictures
