[PRCo] Re: Undergraduate major (heading chnged)

[Ray]

 Wel= l Happy Birthday and thanks for the laugh Mr. Allman.
Ray   On 09/10/11, Richard Allma= n<allmanr at verizon.net> wrote: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[1]>
To: <pittsburgh-r= ailways at dementix.org[2]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:18 P= M
Subject: [PRCo] Undergraduate major (heading chnged)


>I am probably one of the few who has changed the least. I knew by nin= th
>grade that I wanted to make my life and living in music. I ear= ned a BS in
>Music Education from IUP in 1975, went to the Army fo= r a little bit, 
>worked
>as a counselor in a maximum sec= urity unit for juvenile delinquents for a
>bit, did some substitut= e 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 e= arned a Perfraomnce 
>Certificate
>in Trombone (2007). Ov= er the past 45 years, I have performed just about
>every type of m= usic you can imagine and currently keep busy practicing
and
>perfo= rming in a wide variety of settings &styles. I also compose and
&= gt; 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 ov= ens off the 600 volt overhead. The fun part of the day
>was the mo= rning and having to clean two strings of coal cars of all of 
>the= ir
>leftovers before they could be loaded with coke. That meant op= ening,
>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 wo= uld be frozen. I have 
>always
>had great respect for the= working man.
>
>
>Dennis F. Cramer
= >http://home.windstream.net/dfc1[3]
>
>
&= gt;
>




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