Psychology Classes Enjoy Speaker's Visits

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Byline: Matt O'Kray

Many people in the Geneva community have interesting jobs that go unoticed. Their qualities or talents are not recognized.

That's not the case with public speaker Gerald Black, a longtime resident of Geneva. He gives lectures to large companies nationwide on management development, team building and customer service.

Over the past couple years, Black has been speaking at psychology classes at Geneva High School.

It started out about seven years ago when Robert Engle, who taught psychology at the school, sent home a paper asking parents what their special talents were. Gerald was invited to speak to daughter Julie Black's class …