Melvin Bishop:
CLASS OF 1956
Chamois High SchoolClass of 1956
Chamois, MO
Washington University - Arts & SciencesClass of 1979
St. louis, MO
Clark Elementary SchoolClass of 1952
St. louis, MO
Melvin's Story
School
After graduating from Chamois High School, I went to Harris Teachers College in St. Louis. After a summer of work at St. Lukes Hospital, I decided on a medical career. I couldn't afford to become a doctor and too macho to be a nurse, so I entered a School of Medical Laboratory Technology. Graduated from there and did and internship in a small hospital and clinic in Eureka, Mo.
I stayed on there and worked for several years during which, I met my wife and was married. Managed the lab at St. Francis Hospital in Washington, Mo. (Now St. Johns) Was encouraged to go to rockwood Hospital in Ellisville, Mo. Six months later the hospital closed its doors. A doctor and I bou...Expand for more
ght the lab in 1969 and moved it up the street to the building in which he practiced.
Thirty Five years later I still own the laboratory. Dead end job, no opportunity for advancement.
We have two daughters, five grandchildren and an Old English Sheep Dog named Higgins (actually Henry Higgins - you know from My fair Lady). He is in charge of our lives.
Still live in Eureka, have a home in The Villages, Fl. where we spend a few months during the winter. Play golf and tennis. Not retired, but have good directors at the lab which gives me a great deal of freedom to do things.
Enjoying life. Hope you are too and would enjoy hearing from you.
Mel
The lab grew and
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