Charmaine Hantsch earned a bachelor’s degree in history and intended to become a teacher.
However, most of her working career was spent in corporate purchasing and quality improvement, giving presentations at company locations and to suppliers.
Then she spent six years serving in a hospice bereavement department before joining the Northern Illinois University staff in 2007, where she resumed her study of history and earned a master’s degree in 2012. She retired in 2014.
Charmaine has been married to John, a retired architect, for 45 years -- spent in wonderful travel adventures and being ruled by one or more cats.