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WANDA's BIO as we first saw it on the
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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.
Wanda
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Survivor 10: |
Born:
8/24/49 |
Married,
English Teacher |
Ulysses,
PA |
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