A High School Dropout Finds Support On Road From Prison To Law School
Bob VanSumeren served nearly six years in prison for robbery. But Mike McKenney, the dad of his former girlfriend, never gave up on Bob. "Your visits kept me from sinking fully into prison," Bob said.
During the 1990s, in the tiny town of Parma, Mich., Bob VanSumeren lost his way.
He dropped out of high school and started abusing drugs and alcohol. When Bob turned 18, his parents got a divorce and he became essentially homeless, mostly couch-surfing at friends' houses. It was around this time that he and his high school sweetheart, Jillian, broke up. Bob had fallen in with the wrong crowd.
Eventually, Bob robbed
