Kevin Benefield:
CLASS OF 1969
Moss Point High SchoolClass of 1969
Moss point, MS
Sterling High SchoolClass of 1967
Somerdale, NJ
Kevin's Story
I was born in Moss Point in June 1951. I was the youngest of seven children in our family. I loved music at an early age. I started playing piano and taking lessons in elementary school. I picked up on the guitar when I was in my teens. After graduating from Moss Point I went to JC where I met a girl from Philadelphia, PA. She tells me that she knew I was her one and only from the first day she set eyes on me. She told others too. 40 plush years later I guess she was right. We were co editors of the school newspaper, we were initiated into Phi Theta Kappa together. She went on to USM in 1970 and I followed in 1971. I had switched majors to music education by this time and I started to eme...Expand for more
rge myself in my music. I was privileged to be a piano student of Dr. Stanley Waldof and a voice student of the great Marian Novakowski. I loved my music classes and the many friends I made. I sang with the University singers as well which was an experience I count as one of my most memorable. Biz and I married June 2, 1973 after her graduation. I completed my bachelor studies while she went to work for Ellusville State School in Leakesville. I graduated that a December and went on to work on my MMEd. After we interviewed inMoss Point the morning after the old Magnolia school burned. We were offered jobs and We moved back to the coast. I taught at Orange Lake and she at Kreole. Three yea
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