Staculty Christmas Crossword Puzzle 2022

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  1. 3. I was on a local TV game show for kids and won $50.
  2. 4. When I was in middle school my dad was stationed in Turkey for an isolated tour. So my parents decided to buy a horse to keep my sister and I busy while he was away because we had been taking horseback riding lesson at the time. His name was Stormy and he was 16.3 hands. He was a very big horse. My sister and I enjoyed taking care of him and riding him.
  3. 6. I Irish danced for nine years!
  4. 8. My white hair was caused by my new job.
  5. 10. Had to be saved by a neighbor in preschool when my friend and I sat in a wagon at the top of a driveway and it rolled into the street and towards the main road.
  6. 12. I was a cheerleader for Georgetown the year they won the NCAA championship for basketball.
  7. 13. I have met 6 NFL coaches.
  8. 14. I played the part of a sheep in a Christmas play...in high school!
  9. 16. As a child, I taught myself how to write in dwarfish runes (from Tolkien) and used to (and still do!) take notes in them.
  10. 18. Lived in Europe, Africa and Asia.
  11. 19. Whose grandfather was told by Jimmy Durante that “You’re the first guy I’ve met with a bigger nose than me”! (True story)
  12. 23. Climbed Mt. Jefferson in the Cascades and did a 48 hour solo in grizzly territory.
  13. 24. I can only snap with my left hand.
  14. 25. I was born at home and my dad delivered me.
  15. 26. Father Gerry's little sister was one of my housemates in college. We even came to Bethesda one summer and stayed at his parent's home.
  16. 29. I failed my French class three times in college.
  17. 30. I skate on the weekends for fun.
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  1. 1. When I was 20, I got a job in Italy, and one of my daily tasks was to bring a glass of dark, cold beer at midday to my boss.
  2. 2. I have taken part, twice, in the worlds biggest timed cycling event over 109 km. This was in Cape Town South Africa.
  3. 5. I went caving in Belize.
  4. 7. I've seen the on stage production of Les Miserables three times, and even got to meet Javert backstage after one of them.
  5. 9. I have completed three triathlons!
  6. 11. All family members are Oakies (parents and employees, an alumna and a student)!
  7. 15. I read Calvin and Hobbes comics religiously and regularly. :)
  8. 17. I have never owned an umbrella.
  9. 19. Lol I was wondering about this.
  10. 20. I have been called by my middle name since infancy.
  11. 21. I once ran into Emeril Lagasse at Whole Foods and talked to him about pasta sauces. He told me he was impressed that I knew what puttanesca was.
  12. 22. I used to be blonde.
  13. 25. My first job ever was working on my family butcher shop.
  14. 27. I met my husband in Alaska.
  15. 28. Had 20 blood transfusions during my first month on earth :)