Judy Campbell started her career at 19 and still finds passion and purpose in her work.
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"I came to Garland to start the women's programs. And, I started at South Garland High School and I was volleyball, basketball and track coach and we just hit the ground running," she said."I never thought of it as work. I never thought of it as being deprived in any way. I just did what had to be done. And to this day that's what I'm still doing."
"And I just felt like I was, I was there. I had done what I could do. So, I retired with no intention of ever going back to work and I stayed retired three months and Homer called me and said, 'Hey, come to work part-time.' Well, part-time turned into full-time. Full-time, turned into all the time," she said.
"And, now I work with mostly, coaches instead of kids. And it gave me a whole new career to pursue," Campbell said."Homer Johnson asked me one time when we were coming home from a meeting. He said, 'Judy, if you couldn't have done this, what would you have done?' And my answer to him was that I never stopped to think about it because to me, what I've done is so natural. It comes so natural," she said.
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