Spotlight on the Moms -- Sue Stodola!

Sue Stodola was born Sue Jorgensen in the overalls capitol of the world, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She grew up in the same yellow house on the same tree-lined street that her father had grown up in. In the third grade, she met and became best friends with Linda, who remains her best friend to this day.

Sue attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison for one semester before being lured back to the campus in Oshkosh by parental promises of a car. She graduated in 1966 with a degree in Social Work, and after a brief stint in a small Wisconsin town that her daughter can’t remember the name of, she moved to Milwaukee with her new husband, Ed (“Eddie and Susie,” as the folks back home called them). In 1972, her son Justin was born. Several years later, the young family caved to a sense of adventure and moved to the Adirondack town of Lake Placid, in upstate New York. Not long after, her daughter Sarah was born. While in Lake Placid, Sue became an avid volleyball player and developed a severe distaste for endless northern winters. She mostly avoided work during this time in order to care for her two young children, although she did subject herself to serving as a high school study hall monitor at one point.

While spending a year in the early 1980s living in Boone, North Carolina, in a glass house on a river often featured in Mountain Dew commercials, Sue earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling. She subsequently returned to Lake Placid for a couple of years, and then moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where she worked in social work. Then one year, she quit her job in order to “take the summer off.” One might say that turned out to be one long, hot summer, as it has not yet ended!

Sue has become a dedicated tennis player in recent years, and prides herself on routinely defeating women half her age on the court. She’s an absolute sucker for cats, and currently lives with four of them. Sue frequently visits best friend Linda in Columbus, Ohio, and makes her unbearably jealous about her upcoming New York Mom’s Weekend.