Mark Fraze:
CLASS OF 1967
Fairmont West High School (1965-1983)Class of 1967
Kettering, OH
Mark's Story
Life
After high school graduation I played music professionally for another 14 years. Went to Hollywood and was Music Director for a MGM motion picture, then moved to Tucson, AZ and started a record store. 1983 built ReFraze Recording Studio. 1990 I built Sahuaro Shadows, a breeding, riding and horse jumping show barn. These are my current passions. As always music rules, The Stumps continue to get together to play and record music. Injuries from horses have limited my equestrian jumping but the whole family is still enjoying the sport. Traveling and scuba diving has become my recent focus. I dream of going to Bikini Atoll, where the first nuclear bomb was exploded. There are the largest completely intact ships than anywhere in the world. Aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, transports, etc. The depth is about 150ft but the opportunity is once in a lifetime...Oh yes, the radiation has dropped to a safe level for people but you still cannot eat anything grown on the Atoll.
On the family side, after my three, Alan, Erin & Michelle graduated and left the house, we became an adoption...Expand for more
agency for more children. Rosemary Lewis, from Oakwood, lives with us as her mom dropped off the earth, my nephew was abandoned at 8 and left literally on my door step, again parents off the deep end and Josiah Osego, extremely polite young boy whose parents, Jehovah Witness, threw him out of the house for lowering the spiritual level. He talked to girls outside his faith. He lives with us also.
8-01-07...looking for musicians to form a new band......
Workplace
1967 thru 1985 played music
1977 Music director for motion picture "Shame Shame on the Bixby Boys."
1978-1979 performed and recorded "Loose Boots" (see my space "Loose Boots")
1983 built Refraze Recording Studio, still going strong
1987 thru 2000 Board of Directors of Dayton Reliable Tool
2001 Went to Broadway, produced the musical "The Circle," written by a Bosnian refugee who ended up in Dayton.
1990 Built Sahuaro Shadows, a breeding and training facility for jumping horses. Arizona State Champion adult amateur jumper rider 1991 thru 1993 also Western Zone Champion
1990 to present, commercial and industrial real estate
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