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Siebenmorgen, Elisabeth “Betty” Ann Bachimont (1967)

Betty Bachimont grew up in University Place, WA, where her parents taught foreign language: her mother taught Latin at the high school level and her father was a professor of German, French, and Spanish at the University of Puget Sound. After graduating from Curtis High School, Betty Bachimont enrolled in Lewis & Clark College in 1963. In the fall of 1965, Betty along with twenty-one other students traveled with Professor George Sinclair and Margaret Cooley to study abroad in both West Berlin and Munich, Germany. She was involved with the Delta Phi Gamma sorority. After graduating from Lewis & Clark with a German Studies degree, she got a job teaching for the Portland Public Schools. In 1968, Betty was back on campus and through her roommate Romona, met her future husband Hans Siebenmorgen. Betty taught German at a number of Portland public and private schools until retiring in 2000 at the age of 55. Her husband was a mechanic and retired five years later, in 2005. Betty and Hans live in Portland, OR and have two daughters, Anni and Karin, as well as one granddaughter, Mia.

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