10/23/2015 Class News
Joseph V. Passaro, 101, of Warren, PA., died Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at the John and Orpha Blair Hospice Home after a brief illness. He was born September 29, 1914 in Connellsville, PA.,
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Career in Social Work and Administration spanning multiple California counties, 1964 to retirement in 2006.
That's the basics for a resume. To be a little more chatty:
I headed west with my brother Gene (class of 1959) shortly after graduation from Penn State. Lived briefly in San Francisco til landing my first degree required job with Sonoma County Social Services. Then the draft caught up with me and sent me into the Army. I had the good luck to be assigned to a Mental Health clinic on Oahu, Hawaii.
During that time, I decided that pursuit of a professional degree in Social Work was a good plan and entered Social Work grad school a little over a year after separation from active duty. I met my future wife there in my second year of the MSW program.
Francesca (Franny) is from the East as well, born in Washington DC and a graduate of U. of Maryland. We both ultimately became Licensed Clinical Social Workers. She pursued clinical work (psychotherapy) throughout her career. I went into administration after a few years.
We were in Tulare County, CA for 14 years during which I rose from a basic Social Work position to "Clinical Director" of a county-wide contract program.
Following that, in 1986, I was appointed County Mental Health Director for Lake County,CA. Ultimately,in that County, I became Director of Health Services, which included my former job as well as Public and Environmental Health.
I departed there to become Behavioral Health Director for Nevada County, CA in 2001, retiring from that role in 2006.
Along the way, Franny and I have developed a hobby of international travel and, at last count, have visited over 30 countries in 5 continents. Most notably, we spent 2 months in the spring of 2012 volunteering in a Maasai village in Kenya.
It's been a great ride.
I realized I didn't say anything about my kids, aside from listing them and their birth years. Ingrid, my elder daughter, is a school counselor and has two kids of her own, Emma, born in 2001 and Chase, born in 2004. Both are great kids. My younger daughter, Kristen, is an attorney, specializing in Family law and has a son, Nathan, born in 2012. He's amazing! Sons-in-Law Erick and Andrew, respectively are terrific people too. Erick is a renaissance man (can do anything) and teacher of math and physics at HS and college level while Andrew is a business analyst for Intel. Good guys both. I could not be more pleased.
2020 update: I now have a fourth grandchild, Blake. Her mom is my younger daughter. She is a very spunky 2 year old and the apple of her grandmother's eye.
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