Biography ...
Dennis Shipman is currently Chief Ethnographer & Consulting Officer for Applied Anthropologics, Inc.. Dennis has an eclectic background punctuated by world travel that includes a brief stint with la Légion étrangère. He was born on New York’s Long Island. Dennis never graduated from high school. Westbury public school district issued him one of the state’s first “Letter of Completion.” Basically, it stated that he had completed 12 years of high school, but was deficient or, more accurately, short enough credit hours to be formally graduated. While living in Trenton, New Jersey, he was told by a Navy recruiter that his scores on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery [ASVTB] were so high he could easily pass his GED. One never to disappoint, he took the walk-in examination given at Mercer County Community College without any preparation and was granted a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) shortly thereafter by the New Jersey Department of Education. A true renaissance man,