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Dianne
(E-mail her) is an art lover and an artist--of the brush and palette's kind--who delights in representations of the inanimate, also called still life, but who will also, when properly inspired, set her easel out in nature to paint landscapes which are sometimes inhabited with some of the creatures she recalls from her dreams.
When they are not painting, or reading, or writing, Francis and Dianne work for a living.
Dianne's first job was as a secretary to rocket scientists at Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center where she met astronauts and watched missiles being launched close up. Dianne is now an experienced legal secretary with a practice environment ranging from law firms to corporate legal departments.
Francis extensively traveled Europe and Africa at a young
age and held his first office in 1985 working as a translator, and a Liaison
Officer for French-speaking Africa, as part of a program related to a worldwide
survey for public health . He began his career, so to speak, as an
"administrator" shortly thereafter, entering the French Consulate in Los Angeles
where he first served as a Visa Officer, 1986-1995, and later as an
Administrative Manager, 1995-1998, assuming the responsibility of various
sensitive offices such as the Scholarship Program and the Bureau of Electoral
Affairs. Drawn to the private sector and convinced of the positive correlation
between effective design and success in business, Francis joined the studios of
the Warren
Group, an innovative and dynamic Graphic Design Company, where he has now been assuming the position of Accounts Manager since 1998.
When projecting into the future, Francis and Dianne like to imagine themselves moving one day to live and "work/play" into that wondrous and magical garden in the middle of the Pacific, known as Hawaii...
One day? ... Who knows?... "Play is the exultation of the possible" (Martin Buber), and the future is but the present before it happens....