MARY LOU BURTON graduated from Mount Aloysius Junior College with an Associate of Arts degree, Slippery Rock State University with a Bachelor of Science degree and from the University of Pittsburgh with a Masters of Library Science degree (with an emphasis in Automation). She was initially trained as a school librarian but then branched out into the medical field as a Medical Library. She was a regional librarian for the National Library of Medicine through the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She concluded her career at the VA Medical Center, Coatesville, PA as an Information Specialist and Information Security expert. Mary Lou lives with her cats, Merlot and Gigi, at Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, PA. Her Husband has his doctorate from the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA.