Q: Where are you from originally?
A: Camdenton, MO -- in the Ozarks!
Q: Where did you go to college?
A: Gateway '90-'94, Mo. Bap. '96-'98, Webster Univ. '99-'01
Q: How long have you been at Gateway?
A: As a student 1990-94 and faculty since 1995
Q: What courses do you teach?
A: Most music courses: Theory, Musicianship, Pedagogy, Music Apprec., Hymnology, sometimes Keyboard Notereading.
Q: What made you want to teach?
A: I have no idea! I never thought about teaching--I guess it was just God.
Q: What do you enjoy most about Gateway?
A: When students come into my office to eat candy and talk.
Q: What's the most important advice you would like to give students?
A: The most important thing in your life that will affect EVERYTHING else is your relationship with Him--prayer/listening, reading the Word. Ignore everything, just don't ignore that.
Q: What is the biggest difference you notice between today's student and students when you were in school?
A: Students seem motivated to be responsible for their own success. Maybe I'm just old, but that's a big difference I see.
Q: What do you do in your spare time?
A: Read history, dig in the yard, Cardinal baseball.
Q: What's something most people don't know about you?
A: I guess I'm pretty predictable. I am a WW II buff--love anything about it.
Q: What's your favorite Bible passage?
A: Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
