Mary Biever
"I am a homeschooling mother of a two, ages four and six. In my spare time, I help my husband with a small business, edit our homeschool group's newsletter and teach computer classes part-time at night."
(as of ~2000)
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Mary C. Gildersleeve
I am the mom of 5, currently learning at home with the younger 3 -- Joe is doing great at LSU, Catie is a Junior at the parochial high school, and Thomas (8-1/2), Maggie (7-1/2) and John-Paul (5) are living, loving and learning in the Front Range of the Rockies. I've been a corporate exec, a writer and now I'm a SAHM who does LOTS of hand-knit designs on the side while keeping up with the latest and greatest of the home-educating curricula and resources.
I've got a BA in Print Journalism from Gonzaga University and an MBA-Marketing from the College of William and Mary.
You can usually find me: with my head buried in a book, working on the computer or knitting (when I'm not eclectically homeschooling my "littles").
Mary Daly
My name is Mary Daly. This is a common name, because all the Irish families in the world, for several hundreds of years, have named their daughters, and even sometimes their sons, after our Lady. When I was in a Catholic high school, I was once in a math class with 12 students, five of whom were named Mary. Although the name is slightly less common now, it is a fashion not likely to die while Jesus lives.
Among the innumerable host of Mary Dalys, there is one writer of enviable competence and considerable fame who has a poor reputation among orthodox Catholics. It has been suggested that I alter my own name so as not to be confused with her.
What? Can I leave her the first claim to a name that represents both the Emerald Isle and the Queen of Angels? With your help, I would rather redeem it.
I live in South Dakota in the house where I have raised five children over the last 30 years or so, meantime sending a few little ones on, and where I have also undertaken to submit my small part towards cultural renewal, first by writing books about sentence diagrams so people can think more clearly, and then by writing the science texts I always wanted while I was teaching my own children. I have several other books in various stages of completion, and have also published some of the writings of my immediate family, on poetry and science both.
Read more here
Mary Zelinski
Mary and her husband Todd (married in 1987), met at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee when Todd noticed that a girl in the front row was answering all the questions in Algebra. Mary went on to complete a B.S. in Secondary Education and English and has continued to earn graduate credits to maintain her grade 7-12 teaching license. She taught at Pius for 8 years, and was blessed to work with many creative teachers whose ideas still inspire her today. Todd holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and is well known and respected in the Milwaukee business community. Together they've put together an eclectic course of study for their seven children. Todd and Mary are very active in their parish; both are past-presidents of the Education Commission and current leaders of the Youth Group. Todd also coaches basketball and serves as a Dead Theologians Society team leader. Mary works with adult and youth catechesis on both the parish and diocesan levels.
The Zelinskis try to maintain a simple lifestyle in rural Wisconsin where they plant a big vegetable garden and the children are raising chickens. Todd and Mary thank God daily for the opportunity to grow in faith with their children as they continue their homeschooling journey.
Mary-Eileen Swart
Mary-Eileen and her husband Tom are the parents of four children, all of whom were homeschooled from pre-school through high school.
Maureen Wittmann
Maureen Wittmann is the mother of seven children with many years of homeschool experience. She is the author of For the Love of Literature (Ecce Homo Press) and co-editor/author of the Catholic Homeschool Companion (Sophia Institute Press) and the Catholic Homeschool Treasury (currently out-of-print) and writes and speaks regularly on homeschooling.
You can visit her blog here.
N.H.
N.H. is a nine year old Catholic homeschooler. He likes drawing and sports, especially biking and skating. He has two brothers and two sisters. He is an altar boy. [NH has been reviewing books with us for awhile - he is now 10, Summer 2000]
