His wife continued her study while raising her six children.
She earned a P.H.D degree in educational administration in 1991, the same year Shonda graduated from Dartmouth.
Vera earned a doctorate in Administration and Supervision and a Masters’s in Educational leadership and landed her first job as a University professor.
After spending five decades of his career in the intellectual field, Ilee decided to retire in 2013 to spend his retirement days with his wife, kids, grandchildren, and close ones.
Both of them are retired educators.
