Billy Schneider:  

The Cliffs Notes version: I attended Chalmette High School from 1979 through 1983. At CHS I was active in the marching and concert bands, yearbook, and I was a statistician for the JV baseball team for two seasons. I also videotaped basketball games for a couple seasons (the equipment was very much stone-age genre; I remember my monitor was a 13" color TV...quite the rig). I attended summer school in the summer of 1982 because I was tired of attending an all-boys school and wanted to be around girls - not that it mattered much back then, because I was quite shy. I graduated from CHS in the winter of 1983, and then was sponsored by the school to attend "Close-Up" in Washington, DC later that January. Attending Close-Up was perhaps the high point of my high school experience. After taking the spring and summer of 1983 off to work, I relocated to Charlotte NC to attend the relatively tiny East Coast Bible College on scholarship. I put myself through school largely on my own and was active in a few clubs, mainly yearbook (where I served as editor for two years, 1985-86 and 1986-87). I took classes at the local Central Piedmont Community College in the spring of 1987 to get...Expand for more