[PRCo] Undergraduate major (heading chnged)

[Dennis F Cramer]

I am probably one of the few who has changed the least. I knew by ninth 
grade that I wanted to make my life and living in music. I earned a BS in 
Music Education from IUP in 1975, went to the Army for a little bit, worked 
as a counselor in a maximum security unit for juvenile delinquents for a 
bit, did some substitute teaching and got a job teaching music in Ford City, 
where I worked for 31 years. While teaching I earned an MA in Music in 1982 
and just before I retired, I took a sabbatical leave, went back to school 
(Conservatory of Music, SUNY Purchase) and earned a Perfraomnce Certificate 
in Trombone (2007). Over the past 45 years, I have performed just about 
every type of music you can imagine and currently keep busy practicing and 
performing in a wide variety of settings & styles. I also compose and 
arrange music.

Oh to keep it interesting, I worked for 2 summers in 1973-74 at a beehive 
coke plant along Scrubgrass Creek in Armstrong County. We ran everything 
dealing with the ovens off the 600 volt overhead. The fun part of the day 
was the morning and having to clean two strings of coal cars of all of their 
leftovers before they could be loaded with coke. That meant opening, 
sometimes fighting, 6 hoppers per car and getting the coal out. At least I 
did not have to do it in winter when the coal would be frozen. I have always 
had great respect for the working man.


          Dennis F. Cramer
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1