Virginia Grace Herman

She was a loving wife, sister, and aunt. Virginia is survived by her loving family sister: Ione L. Sidle, Nephews and Wives, Ken and Kathleen Sidle, Tom and Jean Sidle, great-nephew and nieces, Makenna, Reilly, Allison Travis, Lauren, Elizabeth, Ian, and David.

A service will be held on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm Military funeral 2:00 pm at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California.

A native of Northern Indiana, of Swedish descent, I am 5'6”, weigh 126 pounds, and am in excellent health. I am divorced, with no children, own an automobile, and am buying a beach cottage. I am free to travel.

Graduating as high school valedictorian, I completed business/secretarial training at South Bend College of Commerce prior to enlistment in the Navy WAVES. My service in Communications (SpQ, 1st Class) ended with an honorable discharge after three years in Washington, D.C.

Relocating in California completing a year of college, I graduated from Wright-MacMahon, the finest secretarial school on the West Coast.

Since that time I have been employed as a private/executive secretary in a wide spectrum of varied experience and proven ability. This has included contact with architects, lawyers, physicists, retail shops, realtors, psychologist, and others. Areas of employment have included working with personnel; selling; customer and public relations; administrative coordination; technical and statistical typing; social events planning; original art creations;

Additionally, I have had some training in art, interior design, TV workshop, on-stage singing performance chorus and am beginning little theater. I also hold a California real estate license.

As a person, I believe myself to be creative/mature, of the highest integrity, honesty, and loyalty. I can work well on my own, am a self-starter, able to take the initiative; I have a patient, understanding attitude, and a special sense of humor! I enjoy a wide variety of challenges, can follow through, and am accurate and attentive to detail. I am also willing to learn the new and to improve myself. I have adjustability to new situations.

SKILLS:

Typing 75+ wpm. Shorthand 90+ wpm.

Experience in use of dictating equipment. IBM Mag Card II training and experience.

EDUCATION:

High School graduate

Completed secretarial business course at South Bend College of Commerce

1 year Los Angeles City College

Graduate of Wright-MacMahon Secretarial School in Beverly Hills, California

1 year San Diego City/Mesa College

Completed UC Extension course in interior design

Various adult education classes

Hold California Real Estate license

Completed Anthony Schools / secured California real estate license

Completed 13-week TV Workshop

1941 - 1942

Stenographer/secretary--Bendix Aviation Corporation (South Bend, Indiana)

1942 - 1945

Enlisted in U.S. Navy WAVES (Assigned to Communication Section, Washington D.C., with 1st Class Q (specialist rating) rating) at time of honorable discharge:

1946 - 1947

Attended Los Angeles City College.

1947 - 1948

Graduated Wright MacMahon Secretarial School.

1948 - 1949

Secretary to Mr. Burton Schutt (Architect, West Los Angeles, California.

1950 - 1952

Remained at home

1952 -1955

Secretary to Mr. Karl F. Geiser (Lawyer, Beverly Hills), general practice,

1955 - 1956

Cashiered in Men's shops in Las Vegas (Riviera Hotel);

1956

Toured Europe 3 1/2 months;

1956 - 1959

Private Secretary to Mr. Edward Alton (Lawyer, Beverly Hills); own probate practice -- extensive experience in probate procedures, wills, and corporate work;

1959

Temporary employment with Mr. John Al. Kennedy (Newspaper owner / Kenco Enterprises, Inc.) La Jolla; also Mr. William Schofield (Lawyer, La Jolla);

1960 - 1963

Secretary to Dr. L. W. Nordheim ( physicist, Chairman Theoretical Physics Dept., Sr. Research Advisor, General Atomic -- now Gulf GA). Worked with staff of 33 physicists / technical report typing involving equations plus secretarial duties;

1963 - 1965

Part-time work as Kelly Girl and p-art-time student at San Diego Mesa College. Returned to

General Atomic as private secretary to Mr. R. A. Wolf (Manager, Contract Administration).

1966 - 1968

Private secretarial / Administrative Assistant to Mr. George S. Murphy, (Dean of Student Affairs, UCSD), with staff of 18.

1969

Resigned above position - continued with education;

1970

Brief assignment as secretary to Zev W. Silbar & Company (Business Analyst/ Consultant, La Jolla).

Prepared figures for accounting projects set up and typed.

1970 - 1972

Secretary / receptionist Beach 'n' Bay Realty, La Jolla. Corporate secretary, handled commercial and trust accounts, letter composition, kept comparable listing file, telephone responsibility, received client;

1972

Secretary / receptionist Realty Executives, La Jolla. Assisted in setting up new office. Secretary to broker / owner and manager and staff of 10;

1972 -1973

Advanced to Administrative Staff Secretary with the San Diego Board of Realtors, with Mr. Peter R. Lombardo, Executive Vice- President. Work included handling correspondence, letter composition, telephone tact with members and public. Also abundant social-activity planning. Created original invitations and arranged for private practice of 80; assisted with installation dinner-dance of 400 guests; registered and assisted at educational seminars of 50 - 200 in number; also assisted with annual State Association sales conference for 100 people;

Other duties include book and supply sales, receiving numerous business and member callers; staff secretary to several committees requiring taking minutes transcription for members. Secretarial assignment to Education Committee of the Board;

The position required initiative, ingenuity, and the ability to perform a great variety of duties. It is a "people business" which I have enjoyed;

1973 - March 1974

Continued employment as Executive Secretary to Mr. Lombardo who accepted position of Sr. Vice President with California Real Estate Association (Now California Association of Realtors) in Los Angeles -- then had some 70,000 members.

First day on the job took me to Monterey, California, where I assisted with quarterly 3-day state Directors' meetings, including impromptu coverage of some Committee meetings by Minutes and transcription (Regional Vice Presidents, Scholarship Foundation, and Membership Committee);

Assisted with Association convention in San Diego (some 5,000 people), coverage as above.

This California Association of Realtors has a membership of some 70,000 and covers some 171 local California Boards of Real Estate;

March/June 1974

Returned to La Jolla. Set up part-time secretarial service in my home. Projects included preparation of 350 names, Hand-lettered addressed invitations and arrange for garden party in Bel Air (W. Los Angeles), with complete follow-through and accompanied guests on chartered bus.

July 1974 - April 1975

Administrative Coordinator for the Innovative Group, La Jolla, (Company develops and markets educational training programs).

1976

Secretary to Robert G. Kaplan, Ph.D., (Psychologist, La Jolla); formed La Jolla Group (3 psychologists, 1 psychiatrist, 2 psych assistants).

Miscellaneous:

My interests include "person, places, ideas, and things" I enjoy art/design, music, philosophy, writing, morning walks on beach.

Hobbies include dressmaking, hand-lettering and greeting card design.

Membership in Torrey Pines Chapter of Sweet Adelines barbershop Harmony), in which I have Historian (created original annual scrapbook); recording secretary; and currently publicity chairman.

I also enjoy travel and have vacationed 6 times by automobile in Europe and once in the Orient.

Salary requirements are open to discussion.

To be commensurate with mutual need.

My personal belief is that there is no substitute for experience, coupled with an attitude of accepting challenge and growth.

I seek employment where I can use my abundant skills and creative.