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While Bill worked and studied, Lucy kept everything running at home. Her nurturing spirit and ability to seamlessly manage household affairs while raising four children under challenging circumstances showcase her resilience and adaptability. The couple positively shaped the lives of their children and stirred a love of learning that continues with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucy, a lifetime swimmer, located the community pool with each move, was a lifeguard, and taught swimming and water aerobics. She did the same in Tullahoma and recently retired from overseeing the senior citizens\u2019 water program. She recorded the history of the South Jackson Civic Center and Hands-On Science Center and was the longtime pianist at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tullahoma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDad\u2019s greatest gift was showing enthusiasm for anything any family member showed an interest in. Tammy was interested in horses. Poof! We moved to Tennessee and bought horses. Randy showed interest in wrestling. Poof! All of us got excited to watch and cheer him on. Danny showed interest in music. Poof! Dad got him an electric guitar, and Danny still plays guitar today. I showed an interest in having an exchange student. Poof! We hosted M\u00f3nica Julio from Chile, whom we still love and adore today,\u201d said daughter Annie Clements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her brother, Randy Boss, agrees. \u201cWe had science in our lives and did many experiments, science fair projects, and biology. He would bring home liquid nitrogen, tarantulas, fossils, and all kinds of examples of science and nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucy equally passed on skills and a passion for learning to their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Randy said, \u201cShe nurtured the interests I have in many of the hobbies I have now. She taught me to sew (I dabble with upholstery) and cook (I love to cook).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n His sister, Tammy Hall, chose a career utilizing skills her parents taught her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy mother taught me bookkeeping at a younger age,\u201d said Tammy. \u201cMy father taught me to invest my funds, save, and be debt-free. I have been a bookkeeper for 40-plus years now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel Boss, their brother, said, \u201cMy parents hosted a lot of exchange students, and my experiences in that international community helped prepare me for work in international environments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They also influenced him musically, agreeing to buy him an electric guitar if he learned to play the classic acoustic guitar already in the house. Everyone held up their end of the agreement, and Danny plays two or three times a week with his wife and son.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twenty and a half years and eight states later, the road and Bill\u2019s U.S. Air Force active duty culminated in Tullahoma. Although he was beginning to fear he\u2019d never want to settle down, Tullahoma eased his concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI like the size of the town, the schools, the climate, our house, plus I like the name \u2018Tullahoma,\u2019 and it\u2019s where I want to stay,\u201d Bill said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Late in his career, Bill was assigned to work at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. He noticed the number of students passing through on field trips but found little to stir their curiosity. Bill suspected they might need the same spark he did, and he learned he could entertain children more quickly than he could instruct them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI started giving the groups a liquid nitrogen show, and soon I was giving them at area schools. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics invited me to join them in creating a science center. As a result, in 1990, I became one of the founders of the Hands-On Science Center,\u201d Bill wrote in his autobiography, \u201cBabblings: My First 85 Years.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, the center has welcomed an estimated half a million visitors to explore science apart from a textbook. Over 100 exhibits invite an up-close look at the science behind aerodynamics, sound and light, geology, electricity, and more. Bill is responsible for creating many exhibits and has led countless programs and demonstrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve spent a third of my life hoping to get kids interested in science as my way of hoping to leave the world a little better place,\u201d said Bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After 65 years of marriage and giving back to the community, it looks like the couple\u2019s on the road to precisely that! GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DEFINING SCIENCE isn\u2019t always easy, but ask Bill Boss to define it, and he will point you to Tullahoma\u2019s Hands-On Science Center. Science is a big, fun adventure where we try to understand how things work. It\u2019s how we learn new things and figure out how to improve our lives. It\u2019s like being a detective, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/tullahoma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/01\/2-1024x683.png\")
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