Stephanie Whyche:
CLASS OF 1958
William C. Bryant Elementary SchoolClass of 1958
Philadelphia, PA
Howard University - NursingClass of 1972
Washington, DC
Howard University - Liberal ArtsClass of 1972
Washington, DC
West Philadelphia High SchoolClass of 1968
Philadelphia, PA
Sayre Junior High SchoolClass of 1965
Philadelphia, PA
Stephanie's Story
Career Status: I'm an award-winning journalist now staff editor/writer for the American Psychiatric Association's Psychiatric News newspaper.
(You can see some of my work by Googling my first and last names.)
Education:
William Cullen Bryant Elementary School . Philadelphia - Class of 1961
Sayer Jr. High School.
Philadelphia - Class of 1965
West Philadelphia High School
Class of 1968
Howard University School of Nursing, Washington, D.C (1973): Bachelor¿s of Science in Nursing
Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine (1978): Master¿s in Public Health
Summer Program for Minority Journalists, UCAL, Berkeley (1982): Competitive Fellowship
1. As a child I came down with "scarletina" aka scarlet fever, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria that occurs in a small proportion of people with strep throat. For many years after that, curiously around Xmas I suffered with strep throat until one year it stopped.
2. I became a Girl Scout when I was Brownie age. I was to turn Girl Scout age in a few months so the leader let me to save my parents the cost of buying a Brownie uniform and Girl Scout uniform
3. I used to be darn good at baton twirling and in my senior year at West Philadelphia High School I was captain of the majorettes marching drill team.
4, My high school boyfriend fought in Viet Nam and came back alive. Then we broke up.
4. I became an expert swimmer while attending Howard Unversity in the '70s.
5.I have a creative side that never fully ...Expand for more
blossomed: In college I tried my hand at old painting; after graduating as a nurse in the '70s I lived in NYC for a while and took singing lessons, a well as , Broadway chorus line dancing at the Alvin Ailey Dance School in NYC and acting at the Uta Hagen Studio. (After becoming a journalist I met, interviewed and wound up writing a News Journal features story on on Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey's premiere dancer during the '70s and '80s who ultimately became the company's artistic director.)
6. My dormitory suite mate during one summer session at Howard University (1971 I think) was Debbie Allen, singer, dancer, TV and film director/producer and younger sister of "The Cosby Show" actress Phylicia Rashad :
7. My first exposure to author Alice Walker -- who would years later win a Pulitzer for "The Color Purple," was reading "Meridian." her less famous semi-autobiographical novel about her college years at a fictional southern university. during the civil rights era. I read the book while a Howard University undergrad living at an off- campus dormitory named Meridian Hall.
8. Although Toni Morrison is most famous for her Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Beloved," I think her better works are her earliest two novels: "The Bluest Eye," and "Sula"
9. I'm a lover of the English whodunit genre of murder mystery books thanks to my introduction to Agatha Christie. I have ready every one of her Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot mysteries, as well as her less known books featuring the married couple the Tuppences,
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