Ro Reddick - Revision history

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 ==Nickname==
-'''Ro''' is Laurie's nickname, and she uses it almost to the exclusion of her birth name.  She acquired it before her marriage to [[Jon Reddick]] while they were the Command Team (President/Vice President) of the [[USS Khai Tam]].
+'''Ro''' was Laurie's nickname. She acquired it before her marriage to [[Jon Reddick]] while they were the Command Team (President/Vice President) of the [[USS Khai Tam]], and began using it nearly exclusively as her name in the late 1990's after having several confusing episodes at work involving herself and a co-worker named Lori.
 ===Why Ro?===
 [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ro_Laren Ro] is a character from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994). Played by Michelle Forbes, she introduced in the fifth season episode "Ensign Ro," but was brought back for several other episodes.  The character, Ro Laren (and Ro is actually the family name here) is from a race in  of people in the Star Trek Universe known as the Bajorans, a displaced and nomadic people.  Laurie felt the characteristics of the character of Ro Laren were similar to hers, and as many people in the Star Trek Fan Association adopted [[personas]], Laurie adopted the Bajoran persona, and the family name of Ro as her own.  Club members agreed with the persona and began calling her Ro.  The name has stuck ever since, and Laurie prefers it to her (family) given name as it is easier for others to pronounce and remember, since it is short, unusual, and alliterates nicely with Reddick.
 ==Childhood==

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 ==Trivia==
 *Is a closet geologist and collects rocks and fossils
 *Collects miniature tea sets
 *Biggest fears are sharks, alligators, tornadoes, and out-of-control elevators
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 *Started beginner gymnastics classes at age 20, and went on to coach and judge gymnastics for 15 years
 *Judged gymnastics for the Special Olympics in 1981 held in Nashville, TN
-*Began [[geocaching]] in November 2009
+*Played music for two presidents (Reagan and G.W. Bush, Sr.), one vice president (Quayle), and 50 governors (U.S. Governors Convention held at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama, 1969)
+*Had her first (and only) child at age 41
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 ==Achievements==
 *Plays five instruments: piano, bass, drums, clarinet, guitar
 *Inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society (1974)

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 She attended Fairhope Elementary, which, when she began, contained all 12 grades.  She attended Fairhope Elementary for grades 1-6, but finished grades 7-12 at the new Fairhope High School where she had a singularly unimpressive academic career.
-She attended a variety of colleges and universities, putting herself through school, finally receiving her BS degree in English from the University of South Alabama in 1989.  She went on to attend graduate school at Florida State University, but elected not to finish the degree.
+She attended a variety of colleges and universities, putting herself through school, finally receiving her BS degree in English from the University of South Alabama in 1989 with a 3.45 GPA.  She went on to attend graduate school at Florida State University, but elected not to finish the degree.
 Colleges/Universities attended:

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 *Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
 *University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
-*Florida State University
+*Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
 ==Occupations==

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 The long story:
-After a courtship lasting approximately three years, Jon and Ro moved in together into an apartment on Hidden Place.  Not long afterwards, during a weekend trip to Disneyworld, Ro and Jon were waiting in line for a ride when Ro spotted a man holding a baby in front of them.  As if an arrow had been shot through her heart, Ro suddenly felt an overwhelming desire to now, at this point in her life, become a mother.  The desire didn't wane over the ensuing weeks and months, and on Christmas day, Jon proposed to Ro, wanting to "do it right."  Within two months, before a wedding could even be planned, Ro became pregnant.  Jobs and life got in the way, and wedding plans were pushed on the back burner.   Finally, in September, Ro began to panic as she began to show, and was afraid they would not get married before their child was born, which was her wish.  She suggested they go ahead and marry quickly, to make it official, and plan a later ceremony.  They were married at the Leon County Courthouse on September 26th, with no friends in attendance.  They made plans to marry, with great ceremony and all their friends in attendance, at an upcoming Star Trek convention put on by Vulkon Enterprises on November 1, 1997.  The marriage ceremony was held in the convention hotel ballroom with Ro and Jon in their Star Trek finery (Ro in a Starfleet uniform with Bajoran nose ridges, and Jon in his entire Klingon ceremonial wear), as were all their friends, with Chase Masterson (from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as Maid-of-Honor.  The ceremony was fully Trek, with the ceremony being lead by Terry Hilliard, the Starfleet International club regional director (in uniform), and a kai and vedek ("Bajoran" religious leaders).
+After a courtship lasting approximately three years, Jon and Ro moved in together into an apartment on Hidden Place.  Not long afterwards, during a weekend trip to Disneyworld, Ro and Jon were waiting in line for a ride when Ro spotted a man holding a baby in front of them.  As if an arrow had been shot through her heart, Ro suddenly felt an overwhelming desire to now, at this point in her life, become a mother.  The desire didn't wane over the ensuing weeks and months, and on Christmas day, Jon proposed to Ro, wanting to "do it right."  Within two months, before a wedding could even be planned, Ro became pregnant.  Jobs and life got in the way, and wedding plans were pushed on the back burner.   Finally, in September, Ro began to panic as she began to show, and was afraid they would not get married before their child was born, which was her wish.  She suggested they go ahead and marry quickly, to make it official, and plan a later ceremony.  They were married at the Leon County Courthouse on September 26th, with no friends in attendance.  They made plans to marry, with great ceremony and all their friends in attendance, at an upcoming Star Trek convention put on by Vulkon Enterprises on November 1, 1997.  The marriage ceremony was held in the convention hotel ballroom with Ro and Jon in their Star Trek finery (Ro in a Starfleet uniform with Bajoran nose ridges, and Jon in his entire Klingon ceremonial wear), as were all their friends, with Chase Masterson (from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as Maid-of-Honor, and George Sumpter, from the club's Marine Strike Group, as Best Man.  The ceremony was fully Trek, everyone costumed but Chase, with the ceremony first being lead by Adm. Terry Hilliard (the Starfleet International club regional director), and then a Bajoran Kai and Vedek (Bajoran religious leaders) stepping in to perform the Bajoran wedding ritual.
 As their September 26th legal wedding date is very close to Ro's birthday, Jon and Ro have opted to celebrate the November 1 ceremony date as their wedding anniversary.

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 *Wanted to be a ballerina (1st grade), racehorse jockey (high school), archaeologist (beginning college), geologist/paleontologist (mid college), but settled for medical transcriptionist
 *Her family was featured on Paul Harvey's radio show in the 1970's
 *Judged gymnastics for the Special Olympics in 1981 held in Nashville, TN
 [[Category:Biographies|Reddick, Ro]]