I am originally from Glassboro, New Jersey but I have lived in the Orangeburg, South Carolina area since 1977. I grew up in a neighborhood. We lived and played and went to school all in the same area. I could walk to my schools from kindergarten through high school. My friends lived next door, across the street, and down the block. I loved growing up in this South Jersey neighborhood. The thing I loved the most about Glassboro (and I still do) is that it was near everything without being in the middle of everything. It was this suburban setting, and especially my loving parents, that shaped by life.

In grade school I loved baseball (the Phillies), TV (Bonanza), and reading (The Hardy Boys). Come to think of it those are some of the things I still love!

In junior high school I began to develop an interest in theater and in audio visual arts, taking television production in eighth grade, and working with the stage crew and AV clubs.

In high school I took my first computer class. We used the key-punch machines at our school and then sent the cards to the College in town. It took as much as a week to run a program, correct it and run it some more. We've come along way, haven't we. I continued with television production all through high school. I even had a summer job helping teach teachers how to use TV in the classroom!

Music has been a constant in my life. I sang in the Junior Choir at church and in the Senior Choir from about sixth grade on. I began taking piano lessons at age five; droped piano after third grade and began learning the trumpet in fourth grade. I played trumpet until my Junior year of high school when I switched to trombone. Our entire trombone section graduated in one year and there was only one freshman coming in to take their place. I also sang in the Chorus, Choir and Madrigals. It was also in high school that I discovered drama. I was in my first show as a Junior. I played John Cross in The Counting People, a very strange play. That same year I was Mr. Brownlow in Oliver. My senior year I played Tommy inThe Music Man, which is still one of my favorite musicals.

I left high school and went on to college, initially to learn to be a computer programer. I started at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. After one semester I decided that broadcasting was the field for me and transfered to John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark.

Of all the good events in my life, there are a few that stick out. One in particular is the day that my daughter, Kristy was born! (See her web page.) She has brought me so much happiness in her fourteen years. I love her more each day. It is so exciting to watch her grow up; to see the things that interest her and the way she is turning in to a great young lady. She seems to have picked up my love for the theater. So far she has been in Annie, Oliver, and Peter Pan with the Calhoun Players; Ghost Chasers with the Orangeburg Part-Time Players; and played Ophelia in a scene from her school's Shakespear Fest.