Joseph Clark:
CLASS OF 1975
Frankford High SchoolClass of 1975
Philadelphia, PA
Fels Junior High SchoolClass of 1972
Philadelphia, PA
Henry R. Edmunds Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Philadelphia, PA
Joseph's Story
During the years 1963 through 1975, and indeed for many years thereafter I was a fairly troubled student, classmates would remember me, if at all as a rather shy, lonely bookworm. (nerd) Starting in 1986 began to improve.
In 1988 I became a outreach worker, that is to say that I was an Intensive Case Manager who would travel throughout Center City Philadelphia getting, or trying to get homeless mentally ill people off the streets and into shelters, I became so good at this that I rated doing the more dangerous jobs such as going into the so-called "box city" at the end of the Walnut-Locust station on the Broad Street subway, and getting crack addicted homeless people out of the station and forcing them into the various shelters in Philadelphia.
I also rated another dangerous job an...Expand for more
d that was the so-called "code outreach" where all the homeless were "302d" (committed against thier will.) into the shelters because the wind-chill factor had fallen to -10f or colder.
By 1998 I was a shift leader at residence for people who were mentally ill. Quite frequently they had no I.D. not even a
Social Security card. The moment that I am most proud of was in 1998 when I was able to get a homeless rape victim both I.D. and eventually into the Joseph J. Peters program that deals solely with sexual abuse victims.
Currently I am a history major and hope to transfer my credits over to the University of Pennsylvania and have a book published on the 1910 Philadelphia General Strike, As well as the period from 1944 to 1951 that resulted in the Democrats taking over in 1951.
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