September 1974 to June 1979 High School
September 1979 to August 1980 Work doing Vacuum Installs
September 1980 to December 1980 University of Guelph
January 1981 to August 1981 Work and Lessons and Auditions for Music School
August 1981 found apartment in Hamilton - 40 Oxford Street
September 1981 Started Mohawk College
July 1983 Summer Tour with Heartbeat Band
September 1983 to April 1984 Graduating Year of Mohawk College
May 1984
September 1984 started McMaster Music
May 1985 Trip to Colorado Springs
May 1986 Trip to Philippines
April 1987 graduated McMaster Music
September 1987 started Bachelor of Education at Faculty of Ed. University of Toronto (FEUT)
April 1988 graduated FEUT, granted Ontario Teaching Certificate
April/May 1988 AQ course in ESL part 1
June 1987 Supply teaching in Oakville
June 1987 Interviews in Mattawa and Sudbury. Hired for Music at Lockerby Composite School in Sudbury. Starting salary approximately $25,000/year.
September 1988 moved to own apartment in Garson, just outside of Sudbury. Began teaching music, adult art, history.
April 1989 Lockerby Jazz Band won Gold at Northern Ontario Band Festival
May 1989 trip to Musicfest Nationals in Toronto, won Bronze
July/August 1989 trip to England, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Germany
August 1989 engagement with Brenda :)
December 1989 moved to Walford Road apartment in Sudbury
May 1990 band trip to Boston
July 1990 our wedding. Honeymoon at Pat Shaw's cottage on Pickerel River. Travel to Indianapolis for the coveted "Bill Gothard Institute" OMG OMG I can't believe it. Somebody stole Brenda's new compact bible LOL. We hated the teaching about music being evil. Damn straight we did.
July/August 1990 getting moved and settled in at Walford Road apartment in Sudbury.
September 1990 Brenda starts BA at Laurentian University, while I continue music teaching, we opened our piano lab and I was also picking up some history and basic math courses.
May 1991 band trip to Bahams.
May 1992 band trip to Hawaii. Brenda came along as an additional chaperone.
June 1992 last day teaching at Lockerby. Resigned from Sudbury Board of Ed. Packing up and moving to Hamilton.
July 1992 moved into our basement apartment on Harvest Road in Dundas. Resumes sent out in all directions.
August 1992 interviewed with Glenn Mallory for Hamilton Board of Ed and was hired to work in teaching music at Tweesdmuir Middle School.
September 1992 first day teaching at Tweedsmuir. Brenda babysat for Linda, I would drop her off on my way to work.
February 1993 bought our house on Adeline Avenue and moved in on the coldest day of the year!
June 1993 Olivia enters the world!
September 1995 first day at Memorial (City) School.
December 1995 Ian enters the world!
September 1998 first day at Viscount Montgomery School.
December 1999 Elinor enters the world!
September 2007 first day at Parkdale Elementary School, teaching grade two.
September 2014 first day teaching itinerant music at Adelaide Hoodless, Queen Victoria, Franklin Road and Mount Hope schools.
November 30 2014 retirement date. November 28 last teaching day.
