Daniel Badolato:  

Filling out a few check boxes in a questionnaire nor writing a few sentences ever adequately tells your story. After all these years I, and perhaps you, look back fondly on many that have crossed paths with you in your lifetime. Our experiences over time have shaped us into who we are. and we wonder what has become of so many of our old friends... So to catch up, here is my brief autobiography covering those years since Dulaney.... After graduating from Dulaney in 1973, I went on and enrolled at Towson State College, now Towson University, continuing my studies in art, but graduating with a BS degree in Business Administration (Concentration in Marketing) in 1978. While at Towson, I was involved in a number of activities there, including playing rugby for Towson. After graduating from college, I continued briefly working in a managerial position for Valley View Farms, Cockeysville, MD where I had worked since I was 16 years of age . After that I was hired on and was employed as a marketing representative for Honeywell Information Systems, living and working in Baltimore, Boston and Philadelphia. I remember one thing that was said to me and the others in our first day of training at Honeywell by a corporate trainer/instructor - "Forget everything you learned in college... That thought has remained with me to this day. "My time with Honeywell in the computer/information systems field was a great learning experience, particularly for "a kid" in his early twenties, getting the chance to work with different kinds of business and industry, to make them more efficient. Frankly I learned more about business through real world experiences such as that, and by my continuing education in fields of interest and expertise...The best education you experience in life is out in "the real world". I left Honeywell in January 1980, having felt a void in pursuing a career that didn't fulfill my artistic and creative abilities. I then relocated again from Philadelphia and moved back to the Baltimore area. I returned to Baltimore in January 1980, and began work at Tray Business Systems, a supplier of printing and graphics services, where I remained until July 2003. While there I designed and marketed printing and design work, ultimately moved into management, still maintaining accounts, and managed Graphic Arts activities for the company and upgraded/expanded the Graphics department there. During those years, I began dating Diane in 1980, we were married in April 1982, living first in Annapolis, MD and then Glen Burnie, MD. Our first son was born in June 1983, followed two years later by Chris, born in 1985. We moved to Severna Park, and then Millersville, MD in 1997. Our remaining years in Maryland we resided in Westminster, MD to be closer to Diane's family. I continued working for Tray Business Systems until July 2003 when I initially retired to take a break and move in a slightly different career direction. Those were great years, full of wonderful experiences where we raised our family and made many friends. After a brief hiatus, I joined the ranks of the self-employed, starting my own company, Graphic Concepts, (now known as Proforma Graphic Concepts) in September 2003, which I continue to operate to this day. Our activities/scope of business involve graphic design, printing and promotions, corporate branding and multimedia for businesses and primarily educational clients in 6 states. This has allowed me much greater flexibility in pursuing the many different interests I have away from my still busy work schedule. We lived in Westminster, MD until our move to Hanover, PA in 2005 where I continued operating my business while Diane continued her career as an OR Nurse. Relocating from Hanover, PA in 2010, we now reside in Myrtle Beach, SC, where I have relocated my business, and where I have been trying to scale back my business responsibilities (Dr's and wife's orders!) to take more time "smelling the roses", and engaging in other pursuits besides my company business. i had taken up singing when we lived in Westminster years ago beginning with the church choir at Annunciation (ABVM) up in McSherrystown, PA around 2002, at my wife's urging. Diane had sung almost all her life and even sang for the Baltimore Symphony Chorus before we were married. So I caught the singing bug as a bass. I continued singing in Pennsylvania, and after relocating to Myrtle Beach in 2011, sang for St, Andrews, then St. James in Conway, SC.. After St. James, we joined Our Lady Star of the Sea Choir in North Myrtle Beach where we presently sing for them. Away from music ministry in these church choirs, my wife and I sing for the North Myrtle Beach All-City Choir, composed of singers from nearby NC and SC. Also, after an audition, I have joined Vocal Edition, which is a kind of self-described professional ensemble vocal group based in Myrtle Beach area. I look forward to the beginning my first of hopefully many performances with them in the fall of 2023. Other than singing, my other interests lie in fine art, personal fitness, running and biking, and other pursuits. I fairly recently stepped away from 27 years of coaching lacrosse, with my last season just prior to Covid, at Myrtle Beach High School coaching varsity lacrosse as the offensive coach/offensive coordinator. Perhaps I will get back into coaching once fully "retired"... kind of miss it LOL! My personal interests have been quite varied over the years, and frequently involve community service, particularly with schools and youth. During our years living in Severna Park, MD, I was a trained volunteer Firefighter in Anne Arundel County, MD and ran fire, rescue and hazmat calls out of Earleigh Heights Fire Company, Severna Park, MD. I did this as a way to give back to the community. That was a rewarding experience and certainly dangerous at times, complete with long hours of seemingly constant training, and while on call, with extended periods of calm, interrupted by periods of excitement, fear and finally satisfaction that you did your job and helped people. I have mostly good memories of that, however, in that line of work, also have seen and experienced things that thankfully most people don't have to see or experience... I had also given time and service to Mt. St. Joseph High School Fathers' Club as a member and President during the years my sons were in attendance there. Diane was active in the Mt. St. Joseph Mothers' Club. That is a terrific school with a long history of excellence. While we lived in Westminster, MD, our youngest son Chris transferred to Delone Catholic High School in McSherrystown, PA because of their music program. My wife is an Alumni of Delone too. While there, Diane and I were heavily involved with the Delone Catholic Music Association and enjoyed the different activities there. Being a very small school with just under 500 students at the time and in a small town, it was a very close-knit private catholic school where it was very easy to meet many parents and their kids. We will never forget the Friday night high school football games there when, during those games we would prepare and serve food in the concessions stand adjacent to the field. We enjoyed our years there and those years of small town living. We have made many friends there at Delone and we continue to donate time, talent,...Expand for more