Jerrold Pritchard:  

Life I am now fully retired after five of phasing out with half-time employment. I have reached that reflective age, where you wonder where all the time and all your plans went while you were so busy. It has been a very interesting and enjoyable life, and while it didn't turn out as I expected, I have had some tremendous opportunities to travel widely and often, work with and meet well-known, respected, fascinating and complex people, and to even influence change and improvement at the schools and universities I have worked at. I have been married three times now. I have two sons from my first marriage to Virgina York, who I met at CSU Sacramento and married while we were in grad school in Seattle. We were divorced in 1976. My oldest son just finished a PhD in Clinical Psychology and my youngest is a struggling poet and writer. My second wife, Loydene Bartholemew Cawelti, and I were married in 1978. I met her while teaching at Univ. of Northern Iowa, where she was Director of Student Activities and Student Development the Student Union. I followed her to Texas when she became Dean of Students at Southwest Texas State University. She retired in 2003 as Dean of Students/Assoc VP at Cal State University, Fullerton. We were divorced in 1992 In 1994, I married Janyce Johnson Spell, whom I had known for years while we were married to other people. She has a PhD in Child Development and Family Ecology from Michigan State University and she was working at Western Carolina University before we got together I met her through her first husband, (who is also a flutist) from conventions, and from correspondence with her publication, The Flute Network, which goes monthly to over 6500 flute players and teacher worldwide. (I am fairly well-known as a flutist, but Jan knows or is known by every professional flutist and flute teacher in the U.S.!) She is really a sweetie and I think I finally got it right this time...it helps to have a wife who has a training in child development and who knows how to take care of a big overgrown baby like me.) I retired from CSU San Bernardino in June 2004, months of more than full-time but I continued to work half time for and 5 years. In summer 2009, we left So. California after 25 years and moved to West Linn, Oregon, a close-in suburb of Portland, to a wonderful new house. Such a green and lovely place. All best to all the Highlands grads from the school's first graduating class in 1959. Jerry Pritchard School --Attended Elementary schools all over California and Nevada (We moved a lot) --Sutter Jr. High School (Sacramento) --Rio Linda Junior High 1954-56 --Grant Union High School 1956-58 --Highlands High School, Graduated in 1959) --CSU, Sacramento, B.A.in Music 1964 --CSU, Sacramento, M.A.in Music 1966 --University of Washington, Doctor of Musical Arts degree (DMA) in Flute Performance and Conducting 1969 Additional Studies: --Post-doctoral Study and Research at Univ of Oxford, England 1974-75 --Aspen Music Festival School Participated in Master Classes with Marcel Moyse, Julius Baker, Geoffrey Gilbert, Michel DeBost. College I was fortunate to go to CSU, Sacramento when the State of California was still supporting education well. Tuition was free and total incidental fees for parking, student activities and health services were just $48 a semester! Sac State had only 3500 students when I entered but grew rapidly during the six years I was there for the BA, MA and teaching credential. The faculty was excellent and dedicated to teaching. The curriculum was outstanding, especially in the large and comprehensive general education core requirements. I was fortunate to be there at a time when things were small enough for there to be opportunity for many leadership roles in student clubs, activities, and musical groups. I participated in student government, the student newspaper and literary magazine, foreign film society, etc. During my last two years I was drawn into a number of civil rights and anti-war groups and participated in a few rallies and demonstration, though I was mostly on the fringes due to my commitments and obligations in musical events and groups. I was especially lucky to get some professional experiences playing in local symphonies, bands, and musical comedy at the early stage of my education and career. (I didn't realize at the time what a special situation that was.) I was active in contemporary music and played with the UC Davis New Music Ensemble in a number of adventurous experiments and premiers of new works by composers writing in the aleatoric, multimedia, and exploratory styles of the time. I also wasted all too much of my youth trying to learn to be a jazz improviser and and "doubler" on flute, saxophone, and clarinet, in hopes of becoming a recording "studio musician" in the Hollywood film and record studios. After a rather disastrous year of teaching junior high school band, orchestra and and 8th grade mathematics as well as doing part-time graduate work, I fled to Europe for six months of travel and study. (The mid-1960s was a great time to be young, free, hitch hiking, visiting museums, hearing opera and symphony concerts, meeting interesting strangers, and generally on the loose!) On return home, I finished my master's degree in flute performance at CSU, Sacramento. I spent the next three years completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree under a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. I wa...Expand for more