I retired from teaching in 2003, but missed the kids, so I'm back at it!!!  I've been in NM since 1975 and still love it here.  I keep in touch with Nancy Snyder Fox (CD) and Jenny Dimm Beck (CDE) - would love to hear from others.

 A sucky day is a sucky day but a sucky day at the beach isn't quite as bad.

"You can have everything you want in life, as long as you help enough other people get what they want first" -- Zig Ziglar

If there's ever anything I can do to help you, please contact me. If you ever need custom coins, please contact me!

 

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Like to travel, like FB, am still looking for Sandra Brown of class of 1962 from Dauphin. Haven't heard from her since 2003.....

Nothing but great memories of CD.

Just enjoying life... Working at my alma mater and CDHS Alumni Association director

Seeing if anyone remembers me. Was only there from Junior to Senior, but I sure enjoyed it. Hope to catch up.

I have recently left Microsoft Corp, looking for other oppurtunities and less stress. I am currently trying to find something I enjoy doing.

My journey so far has been an exciting one, I have owned a number of businesses, taught in the education field, traveled throughout the world, guided wilderness trips in Canada, raised horses, kayaked, fished, and explored areas of this country that are new to me and very pristine in nature, and I never fail to find something new to do or learn or explore.

 

I live in Florida now and it is another "new world" for me to see and photograph as I extend my learning and my explorations to more new and wondrous animals and plants and sights that are not found anywhere else in the world. Each day brings another new adventure for me.

I've been married to Al for 26 years now.  We have 3 wonderful sons who all graduated from CDHS. Becoming empty nesters,  Al and I spend our time training for marathons with Team Aspire.  We started with Aspire in 2010 and have qualified for Boston three times.

I can't believe that is been 35 years since I graduated from CDHS---we've been involved with CD since our three sons have all gone there.  It's nice running into former classmates!  Looking forward to my first class reunion!

Best wishes to my classmates.  Hope life has been good to you all.  Stay Happy !

York College of Pennsylvania - 2005 - Bachelor's of Science of Nursing (BSN)

Penn State College of Medicine - 2011 - Master's in Homeland Security (MHS)

Recently retired from the Army.  Now, Emergency Management Supervisor for the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.

BIO since 1959: Moved to Lancaster, PA. upon graduation from West Chester University, 1963. Also studied composition privately in Philadelphia and New York. Taught one year, hated it, but stayed on in Lancaster working for Dun & Bradstreet and doing free-lance music (composing/music directing)  and writing.

 

First concert song cycle performed at West Chester and later at a new music concert at the U. of PA. in Philadelphia in 1965. Moved into pop music and wrote several musicals which were performed at the Fulton Opera House and the Annerburg Center (The Prophet, after Gibran) in Philadelphia, and a Rock Mass which is currently in development here in California.

 

Eventually scored several short films (including Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat) for Academy Award-winning animator, John Canemaker, in New York. 

 

Developed a sideline in free lance critical/scholarly writing, mainly dealing with films and film music of the Hollywood studio era, 1950-1965. Have been published in various film and music journals and in books published by the Library of Congress. Did a music column for the notorious Scarlet Street, the Magazine of Mystery and Horror, for over a decade.

 

Sick of Lancaster, I finally moved to southern California with my parter in the late 1990s. My score for The Glass Menagerie, written in Pennsylvania, was used in a revival out here and the LA Times called it "enormously effective....."

 

Continued writing and publishing on film music, including program notes for the LA Philharmonic, liner notes for Film Score Monthly soundtrack CD releases (including RAINTREE COUNTRY which I first saw at Loew's Regent theater in Harrisburg in 1959), and various articles and reviews.

 

Special thanks to Mrs. Irene Christman and her college prep music classes at C.D.H.S. for helping me discover both my musical and literary potential

Moved to Texas for the sun. Then on to Colorado for the snow.  And still here.  Who knows where next?