Betty Skinner:
CLASS OF 1965
Lakeview High SchoolClass of 1965
Decatur, IL
Betty's Story
Life
I married a man from Kansas in his senior year of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University In 1967. He then graduated in 1968 and we then moved to Pampa, Texas with Cabot Corporation out of Boston. They make Carbon Black out of Oil. After a little over a year there, we moved to Ville Platte, Louisiana and lived there for 2 1/2 years. I gave birth to our daughter, while he moved us to Franklin, Louisiana, where we stayed for the next 4 years. We then moved to Ahwaz, Iran were I stayed for aprox. 9 months and decided to leave with our daughter in the fall of 1975. I returned to Decatur for a short time and moved to Wichita, KS., where I obtained a divorce in 1976. I had started attending Wichita State University and obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Social Work. I then attended Graduate School at The University of Kansas and obtained an MSW in Clinical Social Welfare. Upon graduation worked for a local Child Guidance Center, where I had worked as a practicum student my senior year. Upon completing my post graduate licensing I started doing some Private Practice, which I have always done part time since then until going full-time in 1996. In 1985, I joined staff at Butler County...Expand for more
Mental Health in Augusta, KS. and continued Private Practice in Wichita. After nearly 10 years, I returned to The Child Guidance Center for a year. I no longer could work for others and went full time Private Practice. I now practice out of my home in West Wichita.
My daughter also attended The University of Kansas and met her husband. She then obtained a graduate degree in Human Relations, while becoming the mother to my two beautiful granddaughters. Of course, she presently isn't using her degrees but is working with other children within the school my grandchildren go to. They have lived in Kansas City all but 1 1/2 years that they moved here, since they graduated from KU.
As you can tell, while I didn't push the books too hard in High School, I decided to later. My friends are all within the Therapy fields as they tend to be the ones I most connect with. I am probably close to being a workaholic but my need to chill is my saving grace.
College
BA from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS.
Class President 2 years
Started the first Hospice in Wichita, KS. for senior class project.
MSW from The University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
1 year accelerated program
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