Better Know Your NTHC Staff & Volunteers! Part the Second: Erma Beeson

Welcome back to our Better Know Your NTHC Staff and Volunteers segment of the blog! Our esteemed victim du jour is Erma Beeson, a recent addition to the staff, who so nicely agreed to answer our (mostly) random questions.

1. What is your job title? What do you do with yourself all day?
“PR and Marketing Assistant.” I sit at the front desk and greet people, work on press releases and have at least once worked with the kids who come in for a school tour.

2. What were you doing before you took the job at NTHC?
I was the Tourism and Sales Manager for the McKinney Convention and Visitors Bureau.

3. What is one project you have worked on that you are especially proud of?
The work we did during the McKinney Sesquecentenial.

4. What was your favorite food as a kid?
Dairy Queen ice cream cones

5. Peanut butter: crunchy or smooth?
Crunchy – you’ve got to be able to feel it as you eat it!

6. What event will you be watching in this summer’s Beijing Olympics?
Gymnastics

7. If you could pick anything, what would be your superpower?
Physical strength

8. What do you do in your spare time?
I mainly do needlework and quilting

9. Which Hepburn do you prefer and why: Katharine or Audrey?
Katharine because she was so versatile in all of the roles she played.

10. If you lived in the supermarket, what aisle would you chose to live in?
I’d live in the produce isle.

11. If you could have dinner with any one person, living or dead, who would you dine with?
Maya Angelou

12. After you open your yogurt, do you lick the lid?
No, not usually, but it depends on how much yogurt is on the lid – I wouldn’t want to waste it!

13. What was your favorite album when you were 16?
In The Wee Small Hours – Frank Sinatra

14. Tell me about your dream vacation.
To go back to Istanbul and take the cruse from Istanbul to the Greek Isles and Turkey.

15. Where were you on September 11, 2001?
I was sitting in my living room praying that my daughter had not taken the subway that morning – her stop was at the World Trade Center. In fact, she was on a plane that morning – the one that left after the hijacked plane.

16. What do you consider appointment TV?
Dancing with the Stars.

17. Who is your favorite US president and why?
John F. Kennedy because of his engaging of the American citizenry – and I had the pleasure of meeting him when I was in college and working for the newspaper. He came in 1959 and I got to go to his reception at the governor’s mansion, which was really neat.

18. Were you named for anyone?
No, I don’t think so!