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is my Shepherd,” as it contains all the challenging sounds for patients with clefts. Remarkably Jerry says, “My most persistent memory of my residential stay was that I was never homesick.” A keen photographer, many of Jerry’s memories are captured in some of his photos shown here.
When Jerry talks about the LCPC having a profound effect on him, he means more than the treatment of his cleft. He was drawn to health care in general and speech pathology in particular, acquiring a BS in Hearing and Speech, an MS in Nutrition and an AAS in Physical Therapy. He later worked as a Physical Therapist Assistant and
an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, P.E. and Health Education. The most significant thing he took away from his LCPC experience was, however, the importance of a “team approach” to work in all its forms. While clefts can give rise to particular medical, physical and social issues, a team approach can effectively overcome them and be applied in other contexts. Jerry applied this method of problem solving when serving in the US Navy in the early 1960s or later at work.
Jerry has been married to Marie for nearly 48 years and they have one daughter, Heather. Although retired, Jerry maintains an energetic lifestyle. He is a
keen swing dance competitor and can be found dancing 2- 4
...most significant thing he took away was the importance of a “team approach” to work in all forms...
hours at a stretch and teaching others four times a week. When looking back on his life, Jerry is grateful to his parents for modeling endurance in the face of their own life challenges and to the Clinic for offering care and modeling a team approach to solving life’s problems.
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