Thurman Dalrymple:  

Go to: thurman-dalrymple .com O.K. I was attending school as a Communication Arts major with a minor in Theater. I began to go to the university auditions, but soon found myself faced with the senior actors and they just blew me away. College Theatre was an intense place- comprised of what I considered very "unique" people, and unlike anything I'd ever experienced before. Well, I decided to regroup and try something a little bit more "me", a terrain less out-there...so Radio/TV/Communication Arts program it was. Eventually (fast-forward just 2-years) I went back to the theatre with more experience and maturity and fell completely in love with the stage, the people, and my wonderful acting teacher/theatre-professor/director-"Adeline Hershefeld-Medalia." While rehearsing a small-stage theatre production at Oakland University, I became involved with a beautiful girl & Marion High School graduate. Now at that time (still a starving actor) I realistically couldn't afford to get married. So it was then that I decided to step out into the business world to make a better living. We were married in 1979 and one year later our daughter was born, 2 yrs after that our son came and that became our family. But since I'd already been bitten by the acting bug- I occasionally went back to Oakland and visited my acting teacher, Adeline, and acted in a couple of her plays(I'm an addict, for performing on stage). Now during this same time, Trent had moved to California (I think it was around 1980)and eventually my entire family (parents, sisters too) did too. By 1990 the company I worked for was going under ( part of the S&L debacle), so we decided- what the hell, let's sell our home and move to San Diego too. By 1997-98 Tr...Expand for more