Daniel Hall:  

At West High, I played trombone in the band, the orchestra and the jazz band. My senior year, I was photographer for the paper and the annual. Other than that, I think I kept a pretty low profile. Well, after leaving West High, I went to Iowa State to study oceanography (go figure), but found my true calling in THE THEATER (technical theater, that is). And while there, I worked my way into conducting orchestras for or musically directing a number of musicals. I followed that with an MFA from the U of I in Theater Production Management & Lighting Design. I then took a job at Theater Memphis as Prod. Mgr/Tech. Dir. I met the love-of-my-life onstage there (and kept doing musicals and designing lighting). Seven years later, I was recruited to move to Cornell University (in Ithaca, NY) to teach and to head their production program in brand new state-of-the-art facilities. I assisted in raising two precious daughters. I built substantial additions onto two house (we kept buying fixer-uppers; again, go figure). I lost my wife to cancer and as you might guess, that had a serious effect on my plans, expectations, priorities and general outlook. Well, when I sent the last daughter off to college I sold the house, bought a schooner and have been living on the boat ever since (yes, year ...Expand for more