|
|
Receptionist / Secretary
Doré was born in Madison, Wisconsin where her father was attending medical school. As her father progressed in his career her family moved to Anaheim, California, and then to Topeka, Kansas. Her father then accepted a position at Duke so at age 9 Doré landed in the South where she had never even heard of grits before. At 18 she moved to the “frozen tundra” to attend the University of Wisconsin- Madison where she met her future husband. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science - Landscape Architecture (with an emphasis on Business & Industry and Historic Preservation) she worked as a law clerk for the press secretary of then presidential candidate, Walter Mondale. She also sang in a band on weekends having started singing in college. Tired of the cold and desiring to pursue a career in her field, she set off to explore California, and then back to North Carolina, where she worked for a civil engineering firm in Raleigh. She was then persuaded by her soon to be husband to move to St. Louis-a city rich in history and, at the time, in dire need of city planning and historic preservation. Her first job was as a paralegal but eventually she found a job in her true field. She worked for a large construction company as an architectural aid and site planner, then as a landscape architect at an architectural/engineering firm. She then spent 17 years at another architectural/engineering firm where she was able to pursue her dreams of renovating historic downtowns (termed “Urban Streetscape Design”) while also doing city planning, landscape architecture, marketing and public presentations. She was also an amateur black and white photographer.
She also sang in a band that began with some fellow church members playing music together in a basement for fun. That expanded into doing fundraisers for philanthropic causes. The band’s popularity grew and soon they were playing gigs several times a month often donating their pay to a beloved cause such as Habitat for Humanity.
At the same time, she was raising two wonderful and talented daughters-Emily and Anna. She considers them her finest achievements. After 21 years of marriage Doré and her husband parted ways and Dore moved home to North Carolina. Her first goal was to find a church family here in North Carolina as she missed her beloved Emmanuel Episcopal Family in St. Louis (Webster Groves). After attending several churches in the area she found CGS and felt like she had come home.
|
