Noted: He returned to West Allis in 1946, went to college but dropped out to play professional baseball. Chipman was still a catcher in the minor leagues when his father died in 1950 and he felt he needed to help his mother at home. After earning a degree at Milwaukee State Teachers College in 1952 — plus a master’s degree in education in 1957 at University of Wisconsin-Madison — he was hired by Milwaukee Public Schools.
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