Lora Allen

After highschool I decided to wait before heading off to college. Worked at St. Joseph’s Medical Center for about 7 years, then started college, first at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburgh, KS) for almost 2 years. Came back to Wichita State to attempt to finish, delayed a little bit by getting married and worked first at Farm Credit Services on/off for 5 years. I spent an entire summer as a camp counselor in Hinsdale, MA at Camp Emerson working as a life guard and water ski instructor. When I started to grow up, I came back to Kansas worked at Farm Credit again and then ended up at Newman University in IT Dept doing Computer Support and Web Design, was there for right at 7 years. Have had a few work adventures since then, Ritchie Corporation, as a Systems Analyst for 2 years. Worked for Single Source, did some temp work for Corporate Lodging which was one of the greatest experiences of my life as well.

While looking for a job to call home, I drove a school bus for about a year, and let me tell you, until you experience it, you don’t realize all the grief those drivers go through…if you’re a school teacher you can relate. I landed in my current job, Inside Sales/Sales Operations Support with CRU Dataport, LLC. We were WiebeTech, LLC until about a year ago when the company was sold to CRU Dataport out of Vancouver, WA. It is a great place to be. (www.wiebetech.com)

Places I’ve lived were Pittsburg, KS, Greeley & Canon City, CO, Indianapolis, IN, and of course back to Wichita.

Have traveled to Niagra Falls, Boston, L.A., Idaho, Virginia, London and Scotland. My son and I spent a week at Disneyworld in April 2007.

My favorite memories were of our great Basketball team. Ricky Ross our star player leading us to so many victories. Football was fun eventhough we weren't the top team.

Our tower getting painted every other week was a hoot too.

Our senior trip to World's of Fun was a great time as well.