Joseph Vargo:
CLASS OF 1963
Hobart High SchoolClass of 1963
Hobart, IN
Wirt High SchoolClass of 2007
Gary, IN
Wirt High SchoolClass of 1972
Gary, IN
Indiana State UniversityClass of 1967
Terre haute, IN
Brazil High SchoolClass of 1965
Brazil, IN
Joseph's Story
After an association of 40 years of teaching, etc. with the School City of Gary --- 28 years at Wm. A. Wirt H.S. and 9 years at Emerson H.S. plus 3 years of "Leaves" to work a year each overseas for the Nigerian Government (Executive Dept.)(79-80) and the British Government (Queen's Court; Belfast, Northern Ireland)(85-86) and the third year in the American Studies Dept. (George Soros) & Psychology Dept. at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary (91-92) --- I am now officially RETIRED as of 15 June 2007. Retirement has brought renewed health and HAPPINESS in various and novel ways. During that 40 yr. interim I taught 15 years at the Chicago College of Commerce (77-92) in Chicago's Loop; one summer at a business college in Santa Fe, New Mexico (82) --- along with teaching Medical Terminology for the Indian Hospital at Santa Clara Pueblo and Picuris Pueblo in NM; worked a portion of 6 years in the dining cars of the Santa Fe Ra...Expand for more
ilway's crack Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains from Chicago to Los Angeles; and was engaged in worldwide travel, etc. to such exotic places as England (+ Ulster & Scotland)(85,86,87,88); Beijing, Red China (87); Istanbul & Turkey (88&89); Austria (89); Switzerland (89); Hungary (under Soviet occupation)(89,90,91) (post-occupation) (92); Lisbon, Portugal (90); Athens & Crete, Greece (91). One very successful accomplishment was the creation of the first computer-assisted court reporting program in all of Europe (85-86) (now commonplace) while associated with the I.R.A. terrorist trials in Belfast, Northern Ireland. All in all a life full of varied experiences. However, no person has to tell you when to stop working, etc. because your body does a pretty good job at that --- you will know when the time has come. As I was told by a former highschool classmate, "you will LOVE retirement," and I must honestly say, "I DO." JOE
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