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Bob and Olivia can be reached at sweet@carolina.rr.com 

 

From Olivia Sweet, Bob's wife         October 10, 2000

Hi Friends,

I have some news that I thought I would pass on to you.

As you know Bob works for the county Sheriff's Dept and has been a

Road Deputy since coming to Albemarle. He has enjoyed that, but for

about a year, we had included in our prayers a request that he find

employment working Mon thru Fri from 8 to 5 so that he could be home at

nights and on weekends and so he would be able to attend church on a

regular basis. We couldn't think of a job that would fill this request,

but the request was made nevertheless.

The answer arrived a month ago. Bob has been reassigned as the

D.A.R.E. officer for the county schools. This is the drug resistance

program that is given in 17 lesson plans to the 5th and/or 6th grades

with a safety program given to the lower grades. He attended school in

Charlotte for his trainning and has been working with the kids now for

this his third week, and he loves it. I personally knew that he would

be so good at this. And he is!! It is so wonderful to have him home at

nights with fun news to tell about his day. God answered our prayer with

a position better than we thought possible. We are so blessed.

Thank you for letting me share our good news. We hope everything is

going well for you too. Let us hear from you.

Olivia

 

  Commentator:  Bakk             ,  Whistle          ,  Lana  5/22/2000

I owe Olivia Sweet an e-mail so I will pass on to her your request for Bob to get in touch with you.  He is going to school studying Law Enforcement and

thinks he may continue and get a masters degree so he can teach.

  Commentator:  Bakk             ,  Whistle          ,  Lana  5/21/2000

I've been e-mailing a lot with Bob Sweet's wife, Olivia.  She is his second - from NC so we have never met, but have exchanged pictures via snail mail and

enjoy writing to each other. Bob and I went to the Jr prom together.

I was dating Russ at the time, but didn't want him to go with me since he didn't know anyone - plus I wanted to stay out and party and knew my mother

wouldn't  let me if I asked him to go with me.  Bob and I were just good friends. (Russ was first husband

  Commentator:  McCoy          ,  n/a               ,  Richard  6/7/2000

Bob Sweet is living in one of the Carolinas now and is a Deputy Sheriff in what we in Law Enforcement call a "Cow County" (means the biggest crime in

the county is still cattle rustling)

  Commentator:  Steele           ,  Bender          ,  Jean Elizabeth  7/10/2000

Jean remembers Dick Shriley, Bob Sweet, Rudy M., Barry Isle, Judy Knapik, Gerry Gance and many others in the class.

Commentator:  Sweet           ,  n/a               ,  Robert Jr  4/6/2002

I am still in law enforcement and eligible to retire any time. I got my time (years of service and age) in last December so I can go anytime, but my wife tells

me I am to young to retire.  I will stay until the next election in November, if the present

Sheriff wins re-election I will stay.  If he loses then I will probably retire.  I have been teaching the DARE program for the last two years and absolutely

love it.  It is like having a new lease on life. .  I enjoyed the patrol duty but I did not enjoy

working nights and weekends.  That is for someone much younger than I.

Life here in the Carolinas is wonderful.  My wife was born and raised in the house that we are living in so that is pretty neat for her and I love this area.

(even though they do not think very highly of Yankees)  We are three hours

from the beach and three hours from the mountains, so we have the best of both worlds. Hope to see Dick and Becky in their new hideaway sometime

soon.

  Commentator:  Sweet           ,  n/a               ,  Robert Jr  4/6/2002

I am still going to school.  I finally got my BS in Criminal Justice last May from a small four year university here in the county where we live, after 36 years

of trying.  I enjoyed it so much that I am getting my Masters in Criminal Justice

with the hope that I can teach CJ at the community college level when I finish.  There is a community college here in Albemarle where I have been promised

 a job teaching next spring.

I am taking my Master's on line.  It is a completely different way of learning.  A lot of reading and writing papers and communicating via the internet.  What

 did we do before computers?

  Commentator:  Wachtman      ,  n/a               ,  Edward  5/7/2001

I went to 4th grade with Lisa Scott, Andy Knapp, and Kathy Jones.  Bob Sweet was in my Cub Scout den.  Jim Hailey and I were friends from 4th grade to

7th. (Edward was a 65 grad from Seton High)

  

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