David Dean:  

Life After graduation I joined the US Army for 2 years on Active Duty at Ft. Knox, KY; Ft. Riley, KS and Mannheim, Germany. I returned to the Charleston area and began my illustrious career as a bartender beginning at Spanky's in 1987 and ending with the Blue Parrot in 2002 with many stops in between at the Levee, the Edge, Yancey's, Number 8, and others. Somewhere I found time to go to college and Graduated from WVSU with a BS Criminal Justice and from Marshall with an MS Safety. I joined the Army Reserve in 1988 and served as an Infantry Drill SGT with the 3/320/3 80th Tng Div and as an ammuniton inspector with 261 OD/332 OD/811 OD and 316 ESC and continue to serve with 2 tours in Iraq 2003-04 and 2007-08. Throughout my military career I have been able to travel to 14 countries and have experiences beyond my wildest dreams. At WVSU I was in the student senate, VP of SGA, founder and president of "the Statesmen" and founder and 3 year president of the WVSU colony of Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity and was nicknamed Yogi by my frate...Expand for more