PLP 2010 Profile: Elizabeth Godfrey

Name: Elizabeth Godfrey

Age: 54

Born: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Current Digs: Augusta County, but only 1 mile from Staunton

Occupation: Substitute teacher. Census enumerator

Favorite part about the job? Learning that teachers are real heroes and watching how they relate to and teach a wide variety of students. The Census is a great way to learn about your community one house at a time.  

Your first job ever?  Picking up discarded pop bottles and returning to the local A&P grocery store for 5 cents each.

Favorite book?  Any Agatha Christie book

Favorite movie? "Outlaw Josie Wales"

Comfort food? Thai or Indian food

What's in your car CD player right now (or favorites on your iPod)? Led Zepplin

Next journey?  To Oregon to see my daughter

Favorite Virginia vacation spot?  Richmond

First political memory?  Assassination of JFK

Whom do you admire and why? The author David McCullough who makes history come alive.

Best advice you ever got?  Choose your battles wisely.

If you could have dinner with any one currently living, whom would it be and why?  Margaret Thatcher.  I want to know what drives her and what her thoughts are on the world today.

Describe a perfect day.  A morning walk with my dog, the rest of the day spent in the garden, reading in the evening, and having a glass of wine on the back porch after supper.  

One thing most people might be surprised to learn about you?  I lived in different countries around the world for 9 years.

Ambition, political or otherwise?  I want to serve on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors.