I attended Indiana University where I did my undergraduate degree in Educational Film Production and then did graduate work in College Student Personnel Administration (which made me a Dean of Students, Registrar, Financial Aid, Housing, etc.). I had planned to work with college students to help them get through school and into a career. But I was recruited by a university in Missouri to come and teach Broadcasting at their Journalism School which was losing students to Radio and Television majors.
I did that for three years then moved back to Indianapolis and was approached to start a cable television system which I helped start. We eventually sold Indianapolis Cablevision to Comcast in 1986.
I started raising my family that year and worked as a decorator in the trade show industry as the Pan American Games came to Indianapolis.
When that business closed I started my own marketing consulting firm called IMAGE MASTER to help nonprofit marketing directors master their image. So I became... the Image Master.

I ran that firm for 17 years until I retired but still work with many organizations that support high school and college students as they look toward their future. I served as President of the Shortridge Alumni Association around 2017 and still maintain an office now serving as the co-chair of the Scholarship Committee for the Legacy Scholarship Fund which awards $10,000 in scholarships each year.

My dad was in the theater business and ran the Edyvean Repertory Theater at Christian Theological Seminary (near Butler's campus). During my Shjortridge years I was heavily involved in theater serving as crew, stage manager, follow-spot operator and several rolls and leads in plays and musicals. Coupled with my love of music I was in several choirs, Music Men and A Capella which were involved with Junior Vaudeville and other events.
My dad took us to Broadway over spring break each year to see seven shows in five days as he looked at shows to do at his Indianapolis venue.
I loved serving as the Big Brother Big Sister Co Chair my junior and senior years because it enable me to get to know incoming fresh each year as I paired them with upper class-men to serve as their mentors. So when I left Shortridge I not only knew most of my class but many students that were freshman and sophomores.
The only picture that I have of myself during those years was shot by someone from the yearbook that was covering what it was like to be in a gym class. And they shot me climbing a rope to the ceiling. The t-short and shorts I was wearing show how skinny I was... and with black horn rim glasses.
What a memory!