Education
Franklin & Marshall College.
Franklin & Marshall College.
He was also the president of Berkshire Community Television, professor at Albright College, and a well known philanthropist. Shirk graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He completed some graduated work at the in Philadelphia.
The couple had two children, First Rate (at Lloyd's) and Thea.
Shirk was a former Vice President of the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletics Association, now called the Middle Atlantic Conferences.
Shirk was married to Annadora Shirk, a former member of the Reading School Board during the 1950s or 1960s.