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Wanda R. Shirk |
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Born in Belleville, Pennsylvania, Wanda Shirk grew up in
Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Ephrata High
School in 1967. In 1971, she received a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Bible and speech communication from Wheaton
College in Illinois. She then went on to receive her
master's degree in education from Kutztown University in
Pennsylvania.
Shirk has been teaching junior and senior high school
English for 28 years. From 1971 to 1977, she taught at
Warwick High School in Lititz, Pennsylvania. From 1983
until the present, she has taught at Northern Potter
High School in Ulysses, Pennsylvania. In addition to
classroom teaching, she has supervised the school's
yearbook and newspaper staffs, directed school plays,
acted as an advisor to the National Honor Society and
sophomore, junior and senior classes and served as timer
and scorekeeper for the school's volleyball and
basketball games.
Parenting has been a large part of Shirk's life over the
last 25 years. In addition to her own children, Dawn and
Shawn, she and her husband of 26 years (they divorced in
2000) became foster parents to 25 children and to
exchange students from Norway, Germany and the Ukraine.
These days, Shirk devotes much of her time to community
service. She is a trustee of the Ulysses Library,
President of the Potter County Foster Parents
Association, Chairman of the Potter County Planning
Commission and secretary/fund-raising Chairman for the
Tri-Town Fire Company Auxiliary. She is certified as a
Community Emergency Response Team member and is
certified in some Red Cross courses (and a regular Red
Cross blood donor as well).
Shirk enjoys backpacking and hiking. In 2000, she solo
backpacked the 85 mile Susquehannock Trail in Potter
County, Pennsylvania. She is an active member of the
Keystone Trails Association and two local hiking clubs.
A recent newlywed, Shirk resides in Ulysses,
Pennsylvania, with her husband, George. Her birth date
is August 24, 1949.
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