Coworkers recently celebrated the 31-year career of radiologic technologist Jean Terry at North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point with a retirement party in her honor. During her tenure at NMMC-West Point she performed diagnostic X-rays and CTs, and became certified in mammography. “All the technology has really changed, all for the best,” Terry said. “The process for how films are produced and developed is completely different. We didn’t have computers back when I started. We hung everything up on a view box. Now everything is developed digitally and viewed on a computer.” In retirement Terry hopes to spend more time with her children and grandchildren. Terry also wants to give back to the community in memory of her husband, who died in 2002. “When we were staying in an apartment close to the University of Alabama at Birmingham awaiting a donor organ, some people in that community brought us care packages with helpful items like laundry detergent, soap and such,” she said. “It was such a good thing for people to think of people who are confined. I want to do something like that.” While Terry has thoroughly enjoyed a long and rewarding career, she looks forward to her next season of life. “This is my season to reap what I have sowed,” she said.
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