For thirteen-year-old Ann Marie, Shippensburg got off on the wrong foot.

It was bad enough she was leaving her friends, but now, fully prepared to enter high school in Massachussetts, she found out she was back in junior high.

Okay, she thought. I’ll move into the third floor of our new house and have it all to myself.”

That plan was shot down when her parents refused to let her move into an area that lacked heat, air conditioning, and other necessary amenities.

Val notes it took her daughter longer to acclimate to Shippensburg than her brother. “She faced preconceived notions of what she was like, more so than Michael.”

Yes, Ann Marie said, “Even in college, I was known as the president’s daughter and I didn’t even go here.”

The other thing she disliked was the public nature of her new home. “I remember coming home and finding a crowd in my bedroom. My mom explained they had a right to the house too. It was hard to understand at first.”

Dislikes did turn into likes as Ann Marie enjoyed the opportunities that came with being in the president’s family. “My first concert was Hall and Oates in Heiges, it was a big deal,” she recalled. “It was neat to see.”

Ann Marie did her undergraduate work at IUP and came back to Shippensburg for her master’s in elementary education with a concentration in early childhood education. “Going away for college was good for me,” she said. “I could establish myself away from my father. I did take some undergraduate courses here so I didn’t completely leave campus as an undergraduate. I worked in food service then and I’m sure some of them wondered what I was doing there.

“For my master’s, Ship had two things going for it. It was a good program, and second it was convenient. I graduated in August 1995.

Ann Marie taught second grade at Central York for ten years. Her dad had the chance to visit her classroom when he was in the area visiting superintendents or teachers and found her to be “just very creative in what she did with the children and she continues to be an outstanding educator.”

Her dad sees a bit of Val in Ann Marie, especially in her humor, and he added laughing, “her ability to poke fun at a sometimes headstrong father. I’ll always cherish that.” Also like her mother, Ann Marie loves Homecoming, but wonders how it will change.

Her favorite memory is her wedding when she married Kevin Lanius in Old Main Chapel. “It was a great feeling to be married here.”

She and Kevin are the parents of four-year old twins Morgan and Jack. They live in Ashburn, Virginia where Kevin is a human resources manager for R.R. Donnelley, Co. Currently a stay-at-home mom, Ann Marie plans to teach preschool next year.