Harvey Dority:
CLASS OF 1958
Roosevelt High SchoolClass of 1958
Gary, IN
Southern UniversityClass of 1963
Baton rouge, LA
Harvey's Story
Harvey is from Gary, Indiana, graduated from Roosevelt High School, and later Southern University (B.S. Secondary Education) . His graduate schools were Wichita State (Administration Of Justice) , Southern California (International Relations )and the US Command & General Staff College. Harvey retired from the Unted States Army after 20 years, including 2 tours in Southeast Asia. Retired from Army in 1983, the Dority kids (all three of them) voted to stay in California and avoid shovelling snow forever. Harvey entered the world of private security, staying for the next 20 years before retiring again. After an 8 year stint with the US Dept of Labor (Job Corps) Harvey retired for the final time in 2011. This tme determined to do it right.
In November 2014, Harvey was inducted into Southern University Sports Hall of Fame for Basketball. In August 2015 Harvey had surgery to replace his well worn left knee and in September 2015 published his first book. Entitled " I'm just Saying", it was a colledtion of short stories of childhood in the Hood, and printed for his kids and grandkids
While rehabing from Knee surgery, Ha...Expand for more
rvey began research on 2nd book, along with youngest son, Kelly. The work is tentatively titled " Tales from Back of the Bus" and recalls college days in the deep south during the early 1960s. With absolutely no illusions of being a famous writer, Harvey is a volunteer facilitator for Life Historty Writing for senior citizens. Assisting elderly people to record and document the stories of their lives has been a joy and a honor. " Each time an Senior citizen dies, we lose an entire library". Harveys' next major goal is to make the trip back to New Orleans for the Bayou Classic with Grambling in the Superdome. . Just a note of opinion, if you're 75 and have a knee replacement , don't take a 5 hour flight without your pain pills. (smart) Two of the Dority kids have time shares, one in Hawaii, and that's were the family meets for Thanksgiving.
2016 has been a recuperating period from the knee surgery,. But also signaled the arrival of our third grandchild. Harvey Atlas Abeola-Dority was expected in August but dropped in early. After 110 days in the hospital the boy was released to go home and has been growing ever since
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