Frank J. Winchester

Frank J. Winchester: I was born in 1935 in Mason, Ohio which was a small village dependant on farming. Mason is about 25 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio. Most of my life has been within metropolitan Cincinnati. Like many Cincinnati residents my roots are Appalachian and my family can be traced as Kentucky residents prior to the establishment of Kentucky as a State. I find this stage of life exciting, discovering new opportunies and the experience of being part of a pioneering generation in aging. I have in difficult times worked at what was available including factory, lab technician and selling furniture in a department store. I was stationed as an Administrative Clerk in the Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska,just under two years, prior to it becoming a State. I worked my way through Evening College and finished up my degree reguirements at the Univesity of Cincinnati for my Bachelor of Science Degree. I graduated in 1970 while race riots were occuring near campus. The career I retired from was Vocational Rehabilitation with the State of Ohio. This type of work required working with social problems I could not have imagined and which I believe have made me a better person. It is a career which, I think, too frequently causes Counselors to become "burnt out" or so "jaded" that nothing can touch them. I look forward to the future and what can be.