DeWitt Shank:  

CLASS OF 1960
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Salem, VA
Bowling green, KY
Broad Street SchoolClass of 1955
Salem, VA
Roanoke, VA

DeWitt's Story

Life Married to Merle Hunter (Cave Spring 1961) since 1966. One daughter Katherine, who lives in Wolcott, VT, with her husband and 3 kids. Work for a residential treatment center for teens, much like what the Salem Baptist Home has evolved into today. Get back to the Roanoke area for shopping a few times a year. Looking forward to the 50th reunion! School North Cross K-3 1947-1951 | Broad St. 4-7 1951-1955 |--Salem ALHS 8-12 1955-1960 | Loved every minute of it, except for one incident in 2nd grade. I hope when I'm senile, my mind will be living somewhere between K and 12. College College was a blast, from start to finish. Hey, maybe that's why it took me two colleges and six years to get a crummy BA in psychology! Played around at Va. Tech for 3 fun years before a 2-term academic suspension. Got back in the fall of 1963 just in time to get my student draft exemption. Made top grades my last 2 terms at Tech, transferred to Western Ky. U. because they had a psych major and Tech didn't then (quite a change there, huh?). Graduated with 3.5+, got into a Ph. D. prog...Expand for more
ram in clin. psych at U. of Fla. which was way over my head. After 1 year wasting time with that, transferred to Rehabilitation Counseling and got my masters in 1968. Workplace Worked a lot of jobs for a lot of people, everything from ditch digging and mowing grass, to supervising local govt. child care agencies with total budgets over $10M. Learned something important everywhere I worked. Learned the most from the worst bosses. Military My dad drove me up to Tech and the Corps of Cadets in Sept of '60 and I was full of excitement and expectation -- looked forward to it. Soon found out what a crock it was, at least it seemed so then. Knew I was not cut out for that. Dropped out of the Corps at the end of the 2nd yr., the soonest I could. Spent the last 2 years at Tech being as unmilitary as I could. Looking back on it, I'm jealous of all those friends and acquaintances of mine who had the guts to stick it out and put in their time. I know they're in a club I'll never be admitted to now -- and they know something about themselves I'll never find out about myself now, either.
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