Steve Glavan:  

I was born in The Dalles in 1956 and moved to Portland at age 5 - with my family, of course! We moved around within the city during our first few years in Portland, so I attended several elementary schools before we settled in the Kennedy School neighborhood. I attended Whitaker in 8th grade, the first year it was a middle school, and then Adams throughout high school. My most enjoyable memories of my time at Adams were my involvement in music and drama. I really got into choir my freshman year because my older sister, Kathi, was in choir - and I thought all of her friends were cool! Fortunately for me, she did not require her little brother to keep a minimum distance from her and her friends, so - nerdy though I was - I was allowed to hang out with the cool crowd. For some reason, they accepted me. I think I made a good mascot. I thrived in that setting, and stayed heavily involved in choir throughout my four years at Adams. Norm Carothers, the choir teacher, was a significant source of encouragement in my life. I also got involved in drama by accident. Because the choir was encouraged to participate in the spring musical, I was in "Carnival" my freshman year. That did it. I had the bug to be on stage from that point forward. The following year I was Linus in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." Overall, I was in several mainstage productions at Adams, including: "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail," "A Company of Wayward Saints," "Rough 'n' Ready," and "Oliver." I had the privelege of working with two great drama teachers - Phil Bonfiglio and Sallie Faist. I graduated in 1974, then attended college for a couple of years. However, I still stayed in close touch with Adams, and even came back to appear onstage in "The Me Nobody Knows" and work as part of the crew for several other shows, including assistant directing and stage managing the musical review that marked drama teacher Sallie Faist's farewell at Adams. I stayed in college for a couple of years, but stopped and went to work full-time while I tried to decide what I wanted to be when (if) I grew up. In 1979 I met my wife-to-be, Caryl, and we were married in July of 1980. We have three kids, Chris...Expand for more