Melissa Sheppard:
CLASS OF 1965
Oak Ridge High SchoolClass of 1965
Oak ridge, TN
University of California - EducationClass of 1993
Berkeley, CA
University of California - OptometryClass of 1991
Berkeley, CA
University of California - NutritionClass of 1972
Berkeley, CA
Florida Presbyterian CollegeClass of 1969
St. petersburg, FL
Melissa's Story
I left Oak Ridge in 1965 to sojourn at a prebyterian college in FLA for 2 years and thence hit the road for CA in the summer of 67. What culture shock, that "Summer of Love" in San Francisco. In 1969 I gave birth to my first son and returned myself to college, eventually graduating from UC Berkeley in 1972. During the time afterwards I worked as a state food and drug inspector, became a Berkeley Police Reserve Officer in 1974 as well as an elisted memeber of the US Coast Guard Reserve, joined the CA Dept of Fish and Game as its first lady patrol female officer in 1979, and quit the DFG in 1987 to attend UC Berkeley in the School of Optometry, disappointed wi...Expand for more
th upward mobility with DFG. I married a great midwestern man in 1977. We have 3 great grown children, one in San Francisco (my other eldest son is in SF also), our daughter is in Chicago, and our youngest here in ND. I retired from the practice of optometry and the Coast Guard Reserve (LCDR) and now live in North Dakota where my spouse and I do church activities and have a gunsmithing shop after we completed gunsmithing studies at Lassen Community College in Susanville, CA. I volunteer with the Red Cross, coordinate the local CERT team and am president of the local ham club among other activities. But, what matters most..is family and friends..relationships.
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