Cathy Wirick
Cathy (Crabtree) Wirick was born in Pennsylvania in 1945 and grew up in State College, Pennsylvania. Cathy attended the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio earning a degree in Spanish. While at the College of Wooster, Cathy took a year abroad at La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Cathy married Ron Wirick who got a draft notice for the Vietnam War. To avoid the draft, he went to Yale University for a degree in economics, and Cathy went with him to teach Spanish in the public schools in New Haven. On July 1, 1969, the Wiricks immigrated into Canada in order to avoid Ron’s final draft notice. Cathy taught school in Ottawa, London, Istanbul, and Dresden. Cathy has four daughters and several grandchildren.