[PRCo] Re: Undergraduate major (heading chnged)

[Richard Allman]

let me be clear-I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up...
Age 68 yesterday


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis F Cramer" <trombone at windstream.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:18 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Undergraduate major (heading chnged)


>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
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