{"id":119962,"date":"2021-05-06T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//?p=119962"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T22:00:41","slug":"senior-overcomes-difficult-past-to-reach-graduation-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//senior-overcomes-difficult-past-to-reach-graduation-at-64/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//","title":{"rendered":"Senior Overcomes Difficult Past to Reach Graduation at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask LeRoy Langston how he describes himself, a /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cscrapper/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d might be one of the first words that comes to his mind. When reading for a leadership course earlier this semester, the 64-year-old student recognized the defining quality of a /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cscrapper/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 the determination to push through any and every challenge /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 as an integral part of the former felon and drug addict/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s path to graduating from UCF this semester.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<blockquote><p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI really want to be an addiction counselor, that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s my ambition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 LeRoy Langston, UCF student</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//blockquote>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI really want to be an addiction counselor, that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s my ambition,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d says Langston, who has earned a <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//degree/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//integrative-general-studies-bgs/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/">bachelor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s in integrative general studies</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//a> with a focus in social work. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI realize that is going to be another challenge because I can see how some people may not want to bring a 64-year-old intern into their organization. I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019m a learner and I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019m still learning how to trust and have faith in God in regard to what it looks like down the road, but I know God got me./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>Part of that faith and trust comes from Langston/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s focus on progress over perfection /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 and knowing that no matter what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s ahead, the future is much brighter than what/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s behind him.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<h2>Difficult Beginnings</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>Growing up in DeLand, Florida, Langston says his mother died before he even really knew what a mother was, leaving his father to care for him and his three siblings. Langston/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s father held small jobs from time to time, but more often he gambled.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cMy dad is my hero. I love him, but he wasn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t educated and he had to go through a lot to keep us because in those times it was a different world then,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d Langston says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cHe didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t have much help and he was trying to raise four kids. Uneducated, no skills, he did what he could do. I spent a lot of time in the gambling joint with him to keep up with him and know where he was./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>When it came to school, Langston says he did well academically, usually finishing his homework before he went home, and he loved to play sports, especially basketball in high school.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI always excelled at sports because I didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t have anything else to do and that was a way for me to validate myself,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI always wanted to be the best. None of that was even put on the table, and with my dad being uneducated I had no type of support whatsoever./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>But at the time, Langston felt good grades and athletic performances weren/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t enough to compensate for the poverty he had lived with his whole life. Looking for a way out when he was a teenager, he joined his younger sister/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s boyfriend in robbing a bar in New Smyrna Beach and they were caught. At 17 years old, Langston was convicted as an adult with a 15-year sentence, before he could even finish the 10<sup>th&nbsp;</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//sup>grade.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cAt the time it didn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t make sense why I was tried as an adult, and now through my classes I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019ve learned about the school-to-prison pipeline so I see how I may have been a part of that,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d Langston says.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<h2>Criminal Past</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>While in prison, Langston did his best to adapt to his new reality. Whenever there were athletic events, he would compete and win money prizes. Using that, he would use the gambling skills he learned through his father to sustain himself. He also began pursuing his GED, which sparked a new interest.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI got hooked on reading, novels by Smoke Jensen helped me get through that time,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI was able to escape through those mountain man stories./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<blockquote><p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI was the description of an addict. You live to use and use to live, that was what I did./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 LeRoy Langston, UCF student</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//blockquote>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>After three years in prison and while on a work assignment outside of the prison, Langston says he was approached by someone who told him he could make good money smuggling and selling marijuana inside. After a few months he got caught and faced his first drug charge, resulting in two years added to his sentence.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cMy parole officer said that when looking at my situation that I probably shouldn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t have been in prison in the first place and he did what he needed to do to get me out after five years,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d he says.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>By the early 1980s, Langston moved to Orlando and began working in a gambling establishment, and after a few years he began using cocaine. In 1989, Langston was caught selling the drug for the first time, but it wouldn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t be his last. During the next 15 years he would continue using and selling, resulting in more than five arrests and congestive heart failure, for which he is receiving disability benefits.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI was the description of an addict,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d Langston says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cYou live to use and use to live, that was what I did. I sold to keep using. I was so twisted in the head [using and] selling drugs. 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/">LeRoy Langston wears a graduation cap and gown while in front of &#8220;Unleash Your Potential Mural&#8221; at UCF Downtown. (Photo by Nick Leyva &#8217;15)</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<h2>Making a Change</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>In 2013, Langston knew he needed to make a change after realizing how his lifestyle impacted his eldest son. He went to the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, located in Orlando/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s downtown Parramore neighborhood. After proving he stayed clean for his first three weeks, he enrolled in a rehabilitation program and eventually became a teaching aid for the GED program offered there. One day a representative from Orange Technical College came in and presented about a Pell Grant program that would pay for college. Langston qualified and even tested into accelerated courses at Valencia College.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cNow that I can think clearly, I can recognize that it wasn/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019t my doing, it was God because there was no way I would have walked away from the situation I was in and do something different,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cThat first semester they put me in flex classes, which were accelerated classes at the time, but after being out of school for 40 years and coming back my first semester I flunked every one of those classes. They wanted to know what was going on and I explained I had been out of school for 40 years and they allowed me to continue on./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>After a second failed semester, Langston lost his Pell Grant eligibility, but he says a school counselor recognized his strengths and potential and found a way for him to continue taking classes. During his second year, Langston began doing better in his courses and continued improving his GPA over the next five years until transferring through the <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//directconnect.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/">DirectConnect to UCF</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//a> program in 2018.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>Once a Knight, Langston spent two hours commuting by bus to and from the main campus daily to attend class and to use the library computers to complete his coursework. Through his studies he completed volunteer work at an adult daycare facility in Winter Park, which Langston says was an eye-opening experience as to other ways people can receive support through social work. After the UCF Downtown campus opened two years ago, Langston, who lives in Orlando&#8217;s Parramore neighborhood, had easier access to the resources he needed to complete his courses, especially during the pandemic.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<blockquote><p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019m going to help people regardless /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 because I can show people kindness and do whatever I can to bring them a little joy /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 but that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019s probably why I love social work, for the chance to help others./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2014 LeRoy Langston, UCF student</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//p></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962//blockquote>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cFor my final assignment, I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019m using things I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019ve experienced at the coalition, where I saw the positive impact of their focus on addiction treatment,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u201cThrough my community-engagement course I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/119962/u2019ve learned the importance of listening to the community to address their needs. 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