When Harriet Nichols Smith Windsor, CHEP '79M, '88EDD, was named Delaware's 1999 Mother of the Year, she says her thoughts went back to her own mother. Windsor of Lewes, Del., whose father had died in a car accident when she was 18 months old, was the only child of Virginia Nichols, a prominent banker in the town. "She was my mother, my father, the sisters and brothers I didn't have. She was my greatest friend," says Windsor, who has been director of personnel for the state since 1993. Shown here with her daughter, Julia A. Smith, AS '98, a case manager with the Superior Court Office of the Prothonotary in Wilmington, Del., and her son, James A. Smith Jr., AS '91, a corporate communications and community relations associate with J.P. Morgan, Windsor says she took her children with her on every step of her career, including following her son to the University to pursue her doctorate. An English teacher at Seaford High School who later developed the English and journalism programs at Delaware Technical and Community College's Owens Campus, Windsor says that being a mother has made her "much less self-centered." "When you're a parent," she says, "somebody's always there who counts more." Both her children and her husband, Richard, accompanied her to Honolulu in May for the National Mother of the Year convention.