I had been singing my whole life, in church, at home around the piano, in school choirs and one of my classmates made fun of me in fifth grade because I sang with vibrato! Both of my parents were singers,Barbershop especially, Dad a tenor and Mom a baritone. I had grown up remembering sitting in the living room in Moorehead MN listening to my “45 record player” playing the first stereo phonic sound recording and there I was, listening to Kirsten Flagstad singing Wagner! So opera was not new to me but this glorious sweet voice was! I knew then and there that that is what I wanted to do. I didn’t know her voice at all at that time. to be exact, Walter put on a recording of Mirella Freni singing Puccini arias which reached the top floor of this lovely old mansion where I was asleep! It was amazing how this angelic voice just touched my very soul. Her husband was a Professor at a college there and we wanted to meet him! After a day of visiting we all went to bed and the next morning bright and early, six A.M. Not all basis of discrimination will apply to both educational services and employment.I was thirteen years old and my folks decided that we would take a trip to see my newly married cousin in Indiana. AUSD prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment, and bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis of actual or perceived age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital, family or parental status, medical condition, national origin, political affiliation, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, retaliation, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, Vietnam Era Veterans' status, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws respectively. || The Antioch Unified School District (AUSD) is committed to ensuring equal, fair, and meaningful access to employment and education services. AUSD staff may improve, reschedule, change, or discontinue products, serves, and/or programs described in documents at any time without notice. Changes may be made to information on a non-specific time basis and, as such, automatically become part of the document.

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