Why I went back
to College.

I had been in college in the 1960's and early 1970's after graduating from Mt. Everett Regional High S. and completing a course of study by mail through the Westport, CT based Famous Artists Schools.

My mother was diagnosed as
having Multiple Sclerosis around 1959, a year after I had been diagnosed as having Epilepsy.

My first collegiate ventures (1966)
were not stellar. By 1968 I had been trained at a hospital in Pittsfield, MA as an orderly. My struggles finally earned, in 1970, an AA in Selective Liberal Studies, at Berkshire Community College, .

In Jan. of 1970 I returned home
to use the orderly skills as my Mother entered a nursing home.

Then I did US and private census work, completed a state (MDTA) Environmental Technologist program and returned to college
to earn one of the first AS degrees in Environmental Studies awarded in Massachusetts. But I couldn't drive a car, a work requirement.

The years between
collegiate efforts.

These skills as an orderly I used
in the 1980's and 1990's to
take care of my Uncle Harold
and my Dad so they did not
need to go to a Nursing Home.
These efforts precluded almost
any other employment then.

A few years in the early 1970's
saw me at various colleges and traveling around this country
and to other parts of the world.

For years I ran the worship
service at some congregational churches, did some art work and advertising pieces for various places, (now defunct) such as
the Great Barrington Fair Asso.
and Jug End in the Berkshires.

I had also worked as an Activities Director at a mostly veterans nursing home, did some work in remodeling, a resident personal care attendant, and lawn caretaking; but by my Father's Death in 1993 I found a need for money to repair the family home.
To gain skills and employment I came in 1994 to Springfield, MA.
My Mom Died in 1995.