Vickie Hoyle
Special Project Program Coordinator

First Job: When I was about 12, I began raking pine needles 30 feet around mountain cabins with my brother. We split $15.00 per cabin.

Birthplace: Fresno, CA

Years at FCEOC: 7

Best advice ever received: Don’t fight the rain.

Favorite advice I give: There’s a hundred ways to be smart and a thousand ways to be stupid.

Interesting experience: Scuba diving at a seal rookery.

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: Kinka soup. (It’s a German Mennonite soup. My Grandmother passed down the recipe.)

Proudest moment: Finishing my Peace Corps duty.

Greatest personal accomplishment: Climbing Mount Shasta.

Best vacation I’ve taken: 9 weeks on a motorcycle with my husband touring Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe shortly after the wall fell.

Favorite weekend activity: Motorcycle riding (weather permitting.)

Last good movie I saw: Patton

Scariest experience: Going to River Park

If I had a million dollars I would… Travel, travel, travel! Also, I’d start a foundation.

Favorite place to shop: The Tower

Favorite childhood memory: Playing basketball, cribbage and monopoly with my Dad and riding the 3rd wheel in the snow.

I admire… My husband.

3 words that describe me best: Resourceful, organized, fun-loving.

I like to watch: Nature and my dog.

Favorite music or artist: Christmas Music

In my spare time… I like to “hang out” with my husband and my dog.

If I’ve learned one thing in life it is… There is no reward in hating anything.