As an Antioch College graduate I embrace Horace Mann’s dictum: "Be ashamed to die before you have won some battle for humanity." Lofty as that aspiration may seem, it is a great reason to be alive and to do the type of work that we do here at CHC.
Antioch gave me the opportunity to gather a fabulous education. As a sociology major, I was concerned with the study of people, mostly in groups, and took courses on urban planning, interviewing, lots of research courses. I taught a course in evaluation research for my senior project, and worked extensively on a cost benefit analysis for increased social spending in human capital. My first co-op was six months in Jackson, Mississippi where I worked in a juvenile justice agency, and in my spare time, tried to revive the local Welfare Rights Organization.
In 1975, I went to the University of Chicago for graduate school where I studied sociology and worked at the Community and Family Studies Center. I wrote a Master’s thesis and came back to Dayton to work at Sunrise Center, managing an employment and training grant.
From Sunrise I went to work for the City of Dayton for a couple of years and managed a $12 million grant from the Department of Labor. In 1980 I became the third director at Sunrise Center and stayed there for eight years. When I left Sunrise I went into business for myself.
For a brief period I taught at Sinclair Community College. Then I heard about an opportunity at CHC, and the rest, as they say, is history. I am now a CPEHR (Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records) and a CPHIT (Certified Professional in Health Information Technology). The HealthLink project has been very exciting because it has wide community support and an important mission, improving access to health care.
On a personal level, I love to travel, play golf, Scrabble and, occasionally, Monopoly.
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