Mark Lavender:
CLASS OF 1971
Bayonne High SchoolClass of 1971
Bayonne, NJ
Lipscomb UniversityClass of 1982
Nashville, TN
Mark's Story
Life
I'm currently living near Nashville, TN.
I've had a few different careers since high school. I've cooked for a living, driven taxis, waitered in restauants, worked in amateur and professional theatre, worked for a couple of ciruses, did a tour in the army, worked as a police officer for several years, and then worked with computers, supervising a computer control center and then hardware and software troubleshooting for a large computer manufacturer.
I've got two great sons.
I got married for the second and last time April 28. 2007 to a dear friend I'd first met in 1978 when we both worked on the same circus (Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus) just a few short years before I joined the Army in 1983.
We'd lost track of each other about 25 years ago and found each other, again, about four years back.
The best part was discovering we were still good friends and still got along great.
Life has been and is, still, an adventure, even with all the ups and downs and bumps along the way, I am blessed.
If you remember me, write me. I'd be glad to hear from you.
If you don't remember me, but want to swap stories about ...Expand for more
people and places in common, write me, too.
We can swap old 'war stories' and cut up jackpots.
All the best to you!
School
One of my favorite high school memories is a funny one (to me, at least). One day, our band director, Salvatore Amato was out, and we had a substitute of some kind who just wanted us to sit and read and be quiet. We were all in the mood to play a particular piece we were currently practicing, titled, "Pavanne", a bouncy up-beat sort of tune. We'd asked the substitute for permission to open the instrument closet so we could get out the toys and play. She refused, no matter how we pleaded... and continued to read a newspaper. After a few moments, almost spontaneously it seemed, we got up from our desk=chairs and went over to our seats where the sheet music was already set out on the stands, and began to vocally play/sing our individual parts...all the while acting as if this were perfectly normal. before we got halfway thru the piece, I noticed that the substitute hurriedly left the band room, and did not return. We continued playing through to the end of the tune, enjoying ourselves thoroughly.
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