Dale E. Ellis:  

Life Dear Colleagues and Friends: I would like in a few words to share with you the major events of my life since Howard Payne. After graduating from HPU (it was HPC in those days), I taught choral music and general music one year in Brady, Texas before moving to Ballinger, Texas in 1967, where I taught choral music and elementary music for 37 years. I became part-time Church Music Director at First Baptist Church in Bronte, Texas in 1968 and married a wonderful girl whom I met in that church, Ida Lee Parker Ellis, in 1977. She taught elementary music in San Angelo for 8 years, taught private piano for several years after we married, and began teaching elementary music, grades pre-K through 2, 6 years ago. I retired after teaching last year, and now my wife still has her job and half of mine - Pre-K through grade 5, all this while finding time to accompany my vocal students and the choirs I direct. Ida Lee is a 1970 graduate of Hardin-Simmons University. I'm still directing the Ballinger Junior High Choir and several high school vocal students who sometimes comprise a choir, on a part-time basis. They also participate in UIL Vocal Solo and Ensemble Contest and in TMEA auditions. My love to all of my classmates and former teachers of McCamey High. I have always held you in highest esteem, and have always been proud to be a graduate of McCamey H...Expand for more