Malinda: "Life Changes for A Umass Employee"

Teri Kovalsick, 31, works in the registrars’ office of Umass. Her job title is clerk three and she clears seniors for graduation. Kovalsick has recently started going deaf. “I’m going deaf. I have hearing aids now. It kinda changed my life.”, she said. Things sound better at work and home. She was surprised to hear her cat meow with the hearing aids, “I didn’t realize she was that loud.”, stated Kovalsick. As a child she had tubes in her ears but those were removed when she was 16. Kovalsick says that the hearing aids have “changed her life for the better.”
Originally from Belchurton, Kovalsick now resides in Turner Falls with her husband, Jesse Kovalsick. The couple has been married for four years and together for ten. Her husband grew up in Turner Falls and they met through friends. When asked what the most important event in her life was, Kovalsick said, “Getting married.” Kovalsick considers her husband her first love. The couple does not have children yet but Teri seems hopeful about the possibility.
The half French, half Irish Kovalsick graduated from Connecticut Canine School. She has done some dog training. “It’s kinda hard because my friends had dogs, but not at this time.”, she said when asked if she still worked as a trainer. She also took some classes at Greenfield Community College and Umass. Kovalsicks hobbies including exercising, scrap booking, sewing and crocheting. She also enjoys listening to country and pop music.