John Murphy:
CLASS OF 1985
Ballou High SchoolClass of 1985
Washington, DC
Wayne State UniversityClass of 2001
Detroit, MI
University of Pittsburgh - Public HealthClass of 1999
Pittsburgh, PA
University of Maryland Class of 1992
Baltimore, MD
Howard UniversityClass of 1990
Washington, DC
John's Story
Life
After graduating from Ballou, I went to Howard University, where I was also an ROTC student. I graduated from Howard and was commissioned as a military officer at the same time. I got an educational delay from the military and went to the University of Maryland for graduate school.
I left Maryland and left the region to begin my career as a military officer. I went to Somalia, Texas, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, and a few other places. I decided to get out at the end of my obligation (being shot at in Somalia helped me make that decsion ;-). I then went back to grad school at th...Expand for more
e University of Pittsburgh and finished my doctorate.
I moved back to the DC area in 2000 and bought a house in Hillcrest. I work in academia now. I also started a small research company called the Evaluation Project. I'm giving a lot of thought to working solely in the company. The company does pretty well, but that's a big decision and I'll decide sometime this year.
School
Do any of you remember the chemistry teacher Gwendolyn Corely? She was at Ballou when we were juniors. She didn't stay very long, but I thought she was hella sexy. I still daydream about her every blue moon.
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