Joseph Lennox-smith:
CLASS OF 1971
Northeast High SchoolClass of 1971
Pasadena, MD
Osborne High SchoolClass of 1971
Marietta, GA
Floyd Middle SchoolClass of 1968
Mableton, GA
LaBelle Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Marietta, GA
Joseph's Story
I am currently finishing my Ph.D. in adult education and psychology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. I have lived in Tampa since 73; went back north for a short while and came right back. I have lived in the same house for 30 years now. I also run a small non-profit organization. I love my work and going to school. Since high school I have had 3 long-term relationships: one break up (5 years), one died (13.5 years), and in my current relationship for the past 16 years. I worked many years for Verizon (GTE), and enjoyed the Navy for eight years.
While attending Northeast High in MD I was in the school play Guys and Dolls, in which I played the Drunk (a bit of type casting at the time). I used to go to most of the dances, black and white. It is still hard to believe that there were segregated dances then.
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e at Osborne in GA I was on the Beta Club, Track Team and a few other clubs.
After high school I ran away from home as fast as I could go and have been on my own since. I owned my first home at 18 and have not lived under anyone else's roof since. In 1988 I and five of my siblings filled charges against our parents for child abuse in an effort to protect a nephew that was moving in with our parents that had abused us. They were both convicted (my father and step mother). The case received national coverage that resulted in our being on the Phil Donahue show; some of you may remember. All in all it wasn't that cathartic. This may explain some of my wackier behavior back then. Well, all I can say is stuff happens, and you get over it.
I am happy and well with good work and good friends and I hope that you are too.
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