David Lea:  

Life I started life in Oklahoma - a little town named Enid. We moved when I was 1 so no memories there. We went to Denver, CO and I got to second grade there. Then my dad became a teacher and we went out to sunny California to a little town called Corcoran. I attended Bret Harte elementary and John Muir Junior High. I was very interested in science and music. Then we moved to Marin County to a little town called Lagunitas. I attended Sir Francis Drake high school in San Anselmo. I was usually seen prowling the Drake corridors with a French Horn case in one hand and a big old brief case in the other (I wonder what ever happened to that old thing....) My great claim to fame however was to have graduated with long hair and a beard (what there was of it), supposedly the first in recorded Drake history! I had fun being in one of the great films Robert Johnson, the drama teacher helped us produce: "The Kid from NEPHEW" (That's: National Emergency Program to Halt Educational Wickedness). I played the clumsy robotized teacher. (Type casting?) I loved the music department! Darrell Parker and Perry Smith have been my heros ever since. I went on, 16 years later - thanks to getting drafted and sent to Germany - to getting a degree and license to teach music my self. It was the wrong decade for finding public teaching in the arts, however, and I still haven't been able to do much with it. I married the most wonderful woman on the planet, Renny - I found her in Germany - even though she's a Milwau...Expand for more