 Though she retired in 2000, she was still active and continued to teach at Wesleyan College.During the last two years of her life, she worked tirelessly to fulfill her dream of a program at West Virginia Wesleyan College where “good writing was the center of a community, with its roots in the region of the writers yet also being able to reference the outside world”.She worked on developing the Low-Residency MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Program here.