Thomas Caruso:
CLASS OF 1973
Circleville High SchoolClass of 1973
Circleville, OH
Ohio State University - Landscape ArchitectureClass of 1979
Columbus, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Thomas's Story
I'm a career professional Landscape Architect, life-long musician, part-time actor. Born Buffalo NY 1955 raised serious Catholic at St. Christopher's Parish & became acolyte after 1st communion. Played football, hockey & baseball. About 1965 started skiing, scouting & began learning guitar. At Cardinal O'Hara HS in 1969 ran cross-country, wrestled, ran 440 & 880 relay track, joined ski club & became an avid outdoorsman. Moved to Circleville OH 1971, ran track 440 event, formed a band with Skip McCabe on bass & Robbie Gans on drums called "Hard Annies", graduated CSHS 1973 & began musical collaborations with the Funk brothers (real name) & Blankenship brothers. Attended UC 1973 to 1975 for Architecture, began OSU 1975, using wrestling skills joined Judo club, became treasurer, advanced to brown belt 1976 & transitioned to varsity Judo team, won weight class 163 in mid-west collegiate championships winter 1977. In ...Expand for more
spring 1977, right ACL injury ended Judo career, during post-surgical convalescence that summer, frat brothers rushed me & I joined Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Following academic year graduated Bacheloriate in Landscape Architecture OSU 1979 & began professional career in Florida. Continued mountaineering and climbed Mt. Rainier WA in 1982. Continued skiing and became NASTAR bronze medalist mens age 25-32 slalom Squaw Valley CA 1983. Continued evolving instrumental guitar sound with simple stomp boxes and pedals. Married in 1983 one child born 1985, divorced 1998, remarried 2003. In 2003 began experimenting with electric guitar modeling & synthesizer, MIDI keyboard virtual instruments, layering tracks, PC Music workstation recording & mastering. My closest friends are from: Circleville SHS, Fort Lauderdale FL, Buffalo NY, the OSU, & from Gamma Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau - hopefully some of them will renew contact here.
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