Childhood Photos
Shenandoah Conservatory Faculty & Staff Share Favorite Memories from Childhood
Carolyn Coulson
Assistant Dean for Student Learning, Associate Professor of Theatre
With my Dad in Trafalgar Square, age 3 or 4. First, it’s London, my second home (I think I’m pointing at Big Ben). Second, this is how our relationship was. He always paid attention to what I had to say!”
Alisa Daum
Assistant Managing Director & Communications Coordinator
You can imagine how grumpy I was when I got to be too big to ride at the front of the motorcycle, so I went ahead and got my own motorcycle license when I was old enough. Hopefully I’ll be riding this Harley Davidson Sportster back to campus when our restrictions are gone!”
Jennifer Green-Flint
Assistant Dean of Administration & Executive Director of Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy
My first pair of pointe shoes and my very first day using them! (Hence the trepidatious look on my face.)”
Byron Jones
Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor)
I am 8 years old in this photo with my dad, taken on the steps at the home of a dear family friend in Columbia, SC, where my dad was getting his PhD (USC). I still refer to him as the REAL Dr. Jones. He will turn 89 this year and has been retired from Appalachian State in Boone, NC, since 1998.
These were my favorite pants . . . I probably begged to be allowed to sleep in them. I am sure I wore them out.”
Bronwen Landless
Assistant Professor of Music Therapy
This photo is one of many favorite childhood memories. Growing up in Ficksburg, South Africa, we had friends who owned a small game reserve. One day when we went to visit, my sister (left) and I (right) were able to feed Hiro, an orphaned rhino infant. He’s drinking milk — not Coke!”
Fotina Naumenko
Assistant Professor of Voice
This is me at 10 years old, proudly displaying my Russian heritage by wearing my aunt’s fur coat and reading a newspaper from Moscow.”
Courtney Reilly
Managing Director & Artistic Director for Performing Arts Live
Ahhhh!!! Perfection! That wig, that Stroh’s beer straw hat, THOSE pants! But the t-shirt . . . that was special. I was the third of seven children and it was rare to have a brand new article of clothing of your very own. Everything was shared or a hand-me-down. But not this . . . I saved up and bought it at Myrtle Beach on a family vacation! 💕”
Edrie Means Weekly
Auxiliary Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice & Co-Founder of the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute
I was seven years old and in Belgium in this photo. We had lived in the Congo at this time. I had gone to Belgium for a month in the summer with a Belgium couple who were close friends of ours in the Congo. ”
