There's always something you can learn from everything. 'She's such a positive, happy, upbeat, optimistic person.

'I think positivity,' Sandy McGugan said of what she's learned from her mother.

She and her brother Patrick also had their mom as a middle school teacher. Sometimes, Sandy will uncover an accomplishment of Lauren's as a player or coach that she never knew before. She believes that Ellis' traits of positivity and humility in raising her four children extend to her own mother. Sandy, who plays field hockey, basketball and tennis at Stonington, is a big fan of her grandmother's. She's constantly sharing that with us and reminding us and sharing with the grandchildren. 'That is, if you take 100% effort and combine that with a positive attitude, in sports, or your job or your schoolwork, you'll be successful. 'Her motto is effort plus attitude equals a champion,' Lauren McGugan said of Ellis. This is what she learned from her mom, a retired fourth-grade teacher at Stonington's Dean's Mill School: She is a sixth-grade teacher at Stonington Middle School and a member of Stonington High's Athletic Hall of Fame. She returned to the Stonington field hockey team as head coach and won nine straight Eastern Connecticut Conference championships before stepping down after the 2003 season. Lauren McGugan is a 1990 Stonington graduate who was an all-state field hockey player and later won a Big East Conference championship while playing at UConn. 'We talked a couple hours,' Stonington High School sophomore Sandy McGugan said of her mom, Lauren McGugan, and Ellis, her maternal grandmother. Three generations of women sat in the driveway at the Mystic home of Carol Ellis recently, six feet apart to allow for social distancing, laughing. Compilations and Short Story Collections are listed at the bottom.Stonington High School sophomore Sandy McGugan, right, a three-sport athlete, says she has learned positivity and humility from her grandmother Carol Ellis, left, and her mother Lauren McGugan, middle. In no other listing are the books numbered. The Point Horror Series may be missing books or out of order because every online source for these lists these books in a different order and varies on the books included. Thirteen Again (By: Lisa Tuttle,Graham Masterton,Colin Greenland,Stan Nicholls,Philip Gross,David Belbin,Malcolm Rose) Thirteen More Tales of Horror (By: Graham Masterton,Philip Pullman,Colin Greenland,Stan Nicholls,David Belbin,Diane Hoh) Athkins,Sinclair Smith)įatal Secrets (By: Richie Tankersley Cusick) Stine,Judith Bauer Stamper,Lael Littke,Christopher Pike,Carol Ellis,Diane Hoh,A.

The Body by Carol Ellis