MORE ABOUT MARLI MCGRAW
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Australian Born
Brought up on 52,000 acre sheep station in southern Western Queensland,
400 miles inland from the coast. (Not remote enough to be called
"the outback" but remote enough to be called "the bush").
Fourteen
miles from the nearest neighbor and 39 miles from the nearest town, a
tiny little one-horse place called Dirranbandi (an Australian
aboriginal name).
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Education
- Home schooled with
private live-in governess until 11 ˝.
- Private boarding
school, New England Girls' School, (300 miles from home) until
graduated high school.
- St Louis University
Extension, Madrid Spain
- AA Orange Coast
College, Costa Mesa, California
- BS with a major in
Entrepreneurship, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California
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Places I've lived
- Queensland, Australia
- Armidale, Australia (boarding
school)
- Brisbane, Australia - 2 years
- Melbourne, Australia - 3 and half
years
- Sydney, Australia - 2 years
- Sacramento, California - 2 years
- Taipei, Taiwan - 4 years
- Dhahran, Saudi Arabia - 3 years
- Costa Mesa, California - 2 years
- Madrid, Spain - 2 years
- Huntington Beach, California - 22
years
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Family
- One son, Miles who lives in Irvine,
California
- Parents both still living in
Toowoomba, Australia
- Elder sister living in Sydney,
Australia
- Younger sister living in Brisbane,
Australia
- Father came from family of 7,
mother from a family of 4 so a lot of cousins, nephews, nieces, etc -
most now in Australia but many lived for periods of time in England,
Scotland, The Hague, Johannesburg, Indonesia, New York, Boston, Oman,
and Kenya.
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Work History
- Secretarial work in Australia for a
legal firm and an architectural firm
- Domestic flight attendant -
Australia
- International flight attendant _
Qantas, Australia
- Secretarial work in California for
legal firm and public TV station.
- Tour and Travel assistant, Marriott
Hotels, Anaheim
- Incentive Travel coordinator,
Marriott National Sales Office, LA
- Customer Services Manager, United
Van Lines agency
- Manager, Data Storage Centers (a
record storage facility)
- International tour guide
- REALTOR®
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Adventures & Traveling
- Visited Hong Kong, Singapore,
Tokyo, Mauritius, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cairo, Athens, Rome, Zurich,
Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, New Zealand, Tasmania, Beijing,
Berlin, Karachi, Teheran, Bahrain, Cocos Island, New Guinea, Fiji,
Canada, Malaysia.
- White water rafting - American
River and Kern River, California
- Hang gliding - Big Bear, California
- Snorkeling - Great Barrier Reef,
Australia and British Virgin Islands.
- Snow skiing - Gstaad, Switzerland
and Mammoth Mountain, CA
- Climbed Uluru (Ayers Rock)in
central Australia
- Did 3-day Avon Breast Cancer walk
from Santa Barbara to Malibu
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Hobbies
- Gardening
- Reading
- Movies
- Visiting art galleries
- Going on historic homes/garden
tours
- Beach
- Going out to dinner
- Traveling
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Clubs and Associations
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