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Upon being graduated in 1958 with a B.S. degree I commenced a seven-year music teaching career in the schools of northeastern Pennsylvania later earning my M.Ed. degree from P.S.U. I married Joan Moore and we began a family: Brian, Erin and Joanathan, and eventually six grandchildren came along. Summer music studies at the University of Toronto represent continuing education. In 1965 I joined the music faculty of Mary Washington College, then the womens division of the University of Virginia, eventually to serve as Chair of the Department for twenty years. In 1975 I earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Catholic University of America at Washington, D.C. In 1971 I founded the Mary Washington College-Community Symphony Orchestra and served as its conductor until my retirement from M.W.C. in 2002, when the Orchestra was invited to perform with the Paderewski Festival Singers at Carnegie Hall in New York City. My conducting studies began at P.S.U. with Frank Gullo, continued at Catholic University under Lloyd Geisler, then Associate Conductor of the National Symphony, and later with Frantisek Vajnar and Otakar Trhlik both of the Czech Republic as well as others. Since the early 1990s I have guest conducted 17 professional orchestras in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania as well as at various U.S. venues and continue to guest conduct in retirement.