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Terry Simonson (Vice President) |
My dad was in the Air Force so I was born in Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii in a small sugar cane plantation hospital and never wore socks or shoes until I was 3 years old.
When dad retired from the military in 1974, the family settled here in Vancouver Washington.
My family is musical with a great Aunt who traveled the world competing with a Sweet Adeline's group from Bellingham Washington, singing, playing the piano and organ. My father and older brother have played the drums since both of their childhoods. My mother played the accordion, but quit when it would make my brother, sister and I cry. My sister danced the Tahitian and she and I both took roller skating dance lessons. (Disco Skating)
At the time, the only thing I could play was the radio, so at the age of 14 I took a beginning guitar class in Jr. High School and took private guitar lessons during the summer. By the fall I was playing guitar in the folk services at St. Andrew Lutheran Church on Sunday mornings. I helped lead singing for all the children before heading off to Sunday school classes, and I belonged to a Liturgical dance group and musical skits at the church. In Jr. High School I joined the choir, and in High School I was in the choir, concert choir, and symphonic choir, and I also volunteered to teach music at a camp for special Ed students. I took Children's Theater instead of a regular Drama class not just because I love children, but children are the hardest audience to perform for, and if you don't get and keep their attention, then FORGET IT!!! I was in plays/musicals, "Sound of Music", "Santa's Christmas Nap", "The Wizard of Oz", and "Cinderella" (Cinderella was a play I did at Clark College) If I wasn't in a play, I was behind the scenes designing and building the sets in Tech Theater till I graduated from Evergreen High School in 1981.
Jump 20 years later, (With all that adult living stuff in between) I worked with someone who was in this choir and asked me to come and listen. The next thing I know is I'm handed music and am now a member of Touch of Class singing tenor. Not too long after that, I joined my church choir. I thought to myself, "Why did I ever stop singing?"
I got heavily involved in TOC by going to board meetings, got the choir involved in the Relay For Life, joined the music selection committee, started and still maintain the TOC web site, was elected vice president twice and elected president twice.
I have two cats named "Peek-A-Boo" and "Tippy". My likes are Ford Mustang's and Harley Davidson's. My hobbies are tinkering on cars and building computers.
My family is musical with a great Aunt who traveled the world competing with a Sweet Adeline's group from Bellingham Washington, singing, playing the piano and organ. My father and older brother have played the drums since both of their childhoods. My mother played the accordion, but quit when it would make my brother, sister and I cry. My sister danced the Tahitian and she and I both took roller skating dance lessons. (Disco Skating)
At the time, the only thing I could play was the radio, so at the age of 14 I took a beginning guitar class in Jr. High School and took private guitar lessons during the summer. By the fall I was playing guitar in the folk services at St. Andrew Lutheran Church on Sunday mornings. I helped lead singing for all the children before heading off to Sunday school classes, and I belonged to a Liturgical dance group and musical skits at the church. In Jr. High School I joined the choir, and in High School I was in the choir, concert choir, and symphonic choir, and I also volunteered to teach music at a camp for special Ed students. I took Children's Theater instead of a regular Drama class not just because I love children, but children are the hardest audience to perform for, and if you don't get and keep their attention, then FORGET IT!!! I was in plays/musicals, "Sound of Music", "Santa's Christmas Nap", "The Wizard of Oz", and "Cinderella" (Cinderella was a play I did at Clark College) If I wasn't in a play, I was behind the scenes designing and building the sets in Tech Theater till I graduated from Evergreen High School in 1981.
Jump 20 years later, (With all that adult living stuff in between) I worked with someone who was in this choir and asked me to come and listen. The next thing I know is I'm handed music and am now a member of Touch of Class singing tenor. Not too long after that, I joined my church choir. I thought to myself, "Why did I ever stop singing?"
I got heavily involved in TOC by going to board meetings, got the choir involved in the Relay For Life, joined the music selection committee, started and still maintain the TOC web site, was elected vice president twice and elected president twice.
I have two cats named "Peek-A-Boo" and "Tippy". My likes are Ford Mustang's and Harley Davidson's. My hobbies are tinkering on cars and building computers.