Kirkland BurkeFormer Regional Promotions Manager
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May 21, 2019
10 Questions with ... Kirkland Burke1) How did you wind-up teaching, being an assistant coach and do music promotion?
Upon leaving the Navy in 1968, I went back to college. A week before classes started, a friend told me about a program that President Johnson had instituted called, "Veterans In Public Service" (VIPS). LBJ thought schools needed more male teachers as a remedy to the chaos and violence that was occurring on an almost daily basis at schools throughout the nation. We were the pilot program for this program. It was implemented through the Chicago Public Schools system. I was interviewed for one of the openings and two day later I received a phone call to report to James N. Thorp Educational, Vocational Guidance Center located in the South Chicago neighborhood in the shadow of what was then U.S. Steel South Works. During that time, I attended Chicago State Univ. in the evening. My day started at 7:30a and my last class often ended at 9p.
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10 Questions with ... Roberta Solomon
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