How long have you lived in Newtown? Since 1967. I came up here with my husband, we were looking for a house to buy, and we ended up in an area behind Fairfield Hills Hospital. The builder had four spec houses, one of which was a raised ranch — which I like — but the property it was built on was wet, so we didn’t want that one. I picked out a different lot in the development and asked the builder if he would put a raised ranch on that and he said yes. It’s a beautiful piece of property that starts high and slopes off into the woods, and it’s the perfect setting for a raised ranch. It’s at the end of a cul-de-sac and it’s lovely.

Are you an active member of any clubs, organizations, and/or communities of faith? Newtown Lions Club.

What do you like to do with your time? I worked so much that I never really had any particular routine. I had a career in telecommunications in the early days, 1982-2014.

If I wasn’t working I was either at the race track with our cars or out on the boats that we had.

Do you have any hobbies? I crochet a little. I was involved in auto racing for over 15 years, first with Sports Car Club of America — amateur racing — as both a car owner and Timing & Scoring official. Then in 1979 I was asked to become director of Timing & Scoring for the IndyCar series. That’s the professional racing which is broadcast on TV. We used to own a couple of boats, and belonged to the Pequonnock Yacht Club in Bridgeport. We did salt water fishing on Long Island Sound.

What is your favorite genre of music? I like music that was written between 1920 and 1950. I can’t stand any of this new stuff. I used to take classical voice lessons when I was growing up and I did some musical theater.

What do you enjoy watching on TV? I like musicals. I watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies. They have a lot of beautiful musicals that were made into movies.

I used to have a favorite program called Yellowstone, and now it’s not my favorite any more because Kevin Coster is no longer in there. I didn’t watch it after they killed him off. I just wasn’t interested, so I haven’t looked at it since.

I also love murder mystery movies, Agatha Christie stuff, and Midsomer Murders, a British TV show. The British know how to do a good murder mystery. The Americans give it away in the second scene.

If you could spend the day with one person, living or deceased, who would you choose and why? My father. He was somebody who was reasonably successful in life, he was a good man, my family life growing up was idealistic, and he had a wonderful sense of humor. He was also smart in the ways of life. He was street smart. I learned how to cook and do all that stuff from my mother in the kitchen, and then I’d go in and sit with my dad and he would tell me all about the corporate world. He was a vice president of a company in Stratford, and I decided at a very young age that I wanted to be in the corporate world.

I was also the son he never had, and I followed him around everywhere he went. When he was home on the weekends, I can remember helping him rewire a 1937 panel delivery truck. He was colorblind and he couldn’t see the wire colors, so I had to do that. He taught me how to do stuff — I knew how to use a hammer, and turn a screwdriver, and I knew what the engine compartment of a car looked like, and what brakes were for, and where they were located, and all that kind of stuff.

What is your favorite thing about Newtown? It’s a nice peaceful community. It reminds me of Fairfield 50 years ago. We lived in Fairfield and wanted to stay there, and we simply couldn’t afford to stay there. It was that simple, and that’s when we came looking at Newtown. As a child, my mother used to bring my sister and I up here to Edmond Town Hall for Saturday cowboy movies. Every Saturday we came to the movies, and that was a big deal in those days because the only road north was Route 25.

Do you have a personal credo? Be kind. Respect other people. It’s that simple, and you should get the same in return.