Barbara at home in Tucson
Barbara
Waters was born on September 26, 1929, in Oak Park, Illinois, to
Gresham
and Norma Hyne. She grew up mainly
in La Grange and Oswego, western
suburbs
of Chicago. Marrying young, she had
two sons: Terence and William Hayes. She
worked as an executive secretary, then returned to college. In the process of earning a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with an English major, she attended
Lyons Township Junior College, Wheaton College, Elmhurst College, and Northwestern
University. After graduating, she
taught for three years, then became an administrator for
Union
Carbide’s Computer Center in Chicago.
In
1968 she divorced her first husband and came to Taos, New Mexico, where
she
returned to teaching and met Frank Waters in 1970. That same year she began
dividing
her time between Taos and Tucson, Arizona, where she taught English, Creative
Writing
and Southwestern Literature at Canyon del Oro High School until 1985.
Barbara
and Frank bought their Tucson home in 1977.
They were married in 1979, the same year that she earned a master’s degree in journalism at the
University of Arizona. In
1988 she earned another master’s degree there in Counseling and Guidance and
began therapy practices in Tucson and Taos.
She organized the
Frank
Waters Foundation in 1993, two years before her husband’s death in 1995.
She
has traveled in Spain, France, ten other European countries, Mexico,
Guatemala,
Peru, Bolivia, Canada, and the United States.
She attended the University
of
New Mexico in 1997 to take computer courses.
Barbara
discontinued her psychotherapy practices in 1995 to write her memoir
Before
that she wrote articles for the Chicago Tribune, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
Waters
Foundation Newsletter, and
the Salt Journal. She has
essays in Frank Waters:
Man
and Mystic and in The
Spirit That Wants Me. She also
has reviewed books for
Western
American Literature and
wrote a foreword for the latest edition of The Woman
at
Otowi Crossing. She
has written four unsubmitted, book-length manuscripts and a
graduate
thesis registered at the University of Arizona titled “Self-esteem of Female Partners of Occupationally Successful Men.”
She is currently writing a book about aging
creatively.
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Barbara
is president of the Frank Waters Foundation, consultant for the Southern Arizona
Friends of C.G. Jung, and member of the Society of the Muse of the Southwest.
She
gives readings connected with her writings, and workshops on writing and
Jungian-oriented dream interpretation.
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