lake . They met that summer but it took 9 years of an off and on relationship before they were married .
Her education continued with another transfer , this time to Bowling Green State University , still in Elementary Education but eventually changing majors once again back to Music . She sang in the A Capella & Treble Choirs , traveling with both . It was at Bowling Green that she met Tom ( Tim ) Conway - yes THAT Tim Conway - and along with two other students formed The Group , a combination of music and comedy . After graduation , The Group went back to the Bronx to make it big . Just as it is today , breaking into the entertainment business was not easy . You had to be a member of the union in order to get a job and you couldn ’ t join the union unless you had a job . They decided that , perhaps , it wasn ’ t to be and so Charlotte stayed in NYC preparing for her new employment in the fall and the “ men ” returned to Ohio . The only one to continue the pursuit in show business was Tom , who changed his first name to Tim since there was someone else with his name , and he started his career in radio-- the rest is history .
Charlotte ’ s first teaching job was in White Plains , NY at a Junior High . She taught General Music and Chorus , Choral Club , and a 3 part A Capella Choir . Later , after establishing herself , she started a 4 part SATB chorus of 9th graders She taught there from 1956 until 1960 .
She had her first great adventure in 1959 , traveling with a friend on the old Liberté ship to Europe . They spent the summer touring the UK , France , Belgium , Austria , Italy and Spain . At the same time , Hal was working on his doctorate at New York University in a lab and decided that he needed to take a summer off from the lab and work with people . He was offered a job as head counselor at a girl ’ s camp on Brandy Pond in Naples . At the end of the summer he was told about an opening at Gorham State--applied and was offered a job teaching math at Gorham State College . Later , that was expanded to include his field in Science and then learning theory .
They married in 1960 and Charlotte accepted a job at King Junior High in Portland where she stayed for one year , after which their first child , Tom , was born . Two and a half years later , Heidi was born . During that time Hal finished his Doctorate in Education at Boston University . In 1966 Hal was invited to go to the University of California at Berkeley for one year to be part of a writing team for a national Science Curriculum . They spent all but the last month of the year with no car and walked to different areas of San Francisco each weekend .