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Barber school grooms graduates to cut into profession.
Byline: Julie Stoiber
PHILADELPHIA _ Bernard Cooper grew up listening to the click of shears, the slap-slap of a straight razor being smoothed on a strop. As the son of a barber, he naturally learned the trade, putting himself through graduate school cutting hair.
And in 1971, when the Las Vegas coroner called Cooper to break the news that his father had died of a massive heart attack while attending a convention, the doctor of psychology suddenly found himself running a barber college on the side.
"I could've just dropped the whole thing because I was busy with my psychology life," said Cooper of Warrington, Pa. "But I saw that barbering had helped people more than psychotherapy; I saw how good they felt when they learned a trade and got a job."
Early this year, Cooper, 73, finally did give up Tri-City Barber School, the only surviving barber school in Philadelphia and, according to its sign in North Philadelphia, "The Oldest Barber School in Pennsylvania."
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