Claudette’s life reflects a palette of many colors.
The range of her resume from secretary into
management in her work world is but one segment
of her career life from her youth to retirement. 

She was married to John B. forty years until his 
death in 1998. The Kielys had five children
between 1959 - 1963.  
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   Claudette founded two organizations in her lifetime and served on several  
   boards of others. She was instrumental in founding and managing the
   Psychical Awareness and Research Association (PARA)  in 1971 on the
   University of  Massachusetts campus at Amherst. She resigned her position
   at the helm in 1976.The organization presented programs for more than
   twenty years both on and off-campus. 

   She taught several courses in the paranormal under the aegis of
   Continuing Education. She wrote, offered courses, and lectured extensively
   in this field throughout New England and New York at other colleges, high
   schools, organizations, etc.  

   Through PARA, she introduced prominent national figures involved in 
   paranormal research and education to the campus to address interested 
   students and audiences from throughout western Massachusetts and
   beyond. Dr. Charles Panati, Harold Sherman, Olga Worrall, Ethel
   DeLoach, Dr. Andrija Puharich, Herbert Greenhouse and others were
   among those who enriched audiences over the years.  

   Claudette also served the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation,
   (NNFF), as director in western Massachusetts for the state chapter. She
   also led parents to establish a local organization, Neurofibromatosis
   Association, Inc. to provide greater benefit for area families affected by this
   neurological disorder.   

   She worked closely with the late Hon. Silvio O.Conte, Congressman from
   the First District of Massachusetts on behalf of those affected by 
   neurofibromatosis. The Congressman's biography, Silvio - A Congressman
   for Everyone  includes the story of their combined efforts also documented
   in his library at North Adams, Massachusetts.  

   On behalf of those afflicted by neurofibromatosis, Claudette testified
   before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and
   Education, Committee on Appropriations, May 7, 1985 representing NNFF
   and the National Committee For Research. The panel included the late
   Hon. James Roosevelt and guest advocate, the renowned late Kitty Carlisle
   Hart together  with two other members, each representing different orphan
   diseases.  

   With heightened awareness, these combined efforts brought about major
   annual increases in the budget of The National Institute of Neurological
   and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS). Increased research
   grant funding enabled greater research activity  by the National Institutes
   of Health (NIH) for the study of neurofibromatosis.  

   Claudette served on one of the State's six regional boards, Western  
   Massachusetts Health Planning Council (WMHPC), under the aegis of the
   Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She is accredited with
   leadership of the undecided voters of the Board of Directors to approve a
   kidney transplant unit in a major western Massachusetts hospital, Baystate
   Medical Center-- at that time, the first in any hospital west of Boston in
   1985.

   Her brief tenure on the Community Health Foundation's Board of
   Directors for the Visiting Nurse Association and affiliates led to her
   accepting a position as Director of External Affairs in the organization.
   Actively involved in fundraising and development, she conducted the
   feasibility study and strategized the capital campaign, working with the
   Board of Directors, staff and Committee, to establish the hospice for the
   region.

   While at the University of Massachusetts, both as an employee and later a
  graduate student, Claudette’s writing included newsletters and copy for
  many publication both in the School of Education and School of
  Engineering where she worked on American Society for Engineering
  Education Conference - 1980 (ASEE). She also held many board positions 
  in student organizations and the Dean's Cabinet at the School of
  Education.

   She earned her M.Ed. in 1983 at University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
  School of Education. Her concentration in organizational development lent
  itself beyond and she completed the coursework for her doctorate. Her
  doctoral coursework focused on organizational behavior. The doctorate
  degree with its dissertation remains, by choice, unfinished business.

   Claudette held many positions in the Western Massachusetts Writers’ Guild,
  1960-1970, including that of Editor of the Scriptorial, the Guild’s magazine.
  Her writing credits include a poem “Mother, Behold Thy Son”,
  internationally published in the Italo-American newspapers in the ‘60’s. Her
  poetry has been published elsewhere and more recently, 2008 and 2009, on
  display in Canada at the Vancouver Public Library for their Annual
  International Poetry Display. The theme for 2009 is "Many Faces of Love".

   Claudette wrote a popular weekly column on the paranormal in the '70's in
  SingleScope newspaper as well as holding a position as stringer for another
  weekly that covered news in her community and beyond in the '60's.

   FATE Magazine carried her story, “Our Baby Sitter Became A Ghost” 
  (1979).

   Most recently, she became a member of Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI) to
  protect her lyrics on the advisement of a Christian Country Western singer
  who will incorporate Claudette’s lyrics on a forthcoming album. She and
  Claudette will be listed as co-writers. (More on this later)

   New to fiction writing, Claudette has just completed a romance novel that
  awaits publishing. She has other books, including a sequel underway. She
  also has a book on the paranormal she has scheduled for completion in
  2009.

   The 1967 volume, “Outstanding Young Women of America” lists Claudette
  in its pages. Claudette is also a member of the International Women's
  Writing Guild.