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My dancing career started watching American Bandstand on TV in the late
1950s. Throughout my first career as an Army officer for twenty-one
years, my passion for ballroom dance never diminished. Upon retiring
from the Army, I became a secondary school history teacher and began
teaching basic ballroom dancing in 1994. I have continued to enrich my
classes with different steps that I have learned from various
instructors and that I have developed myself. I have always enjoyed
using my own imagination to refine and expand the basic steps of a
particular style. My focus continues to be beginning and intermediate
levels of ballroom dancing for social and recreational purposes.
Aside from my ballroom dance instruction, I hold a Ph.D. in
International Relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and serve as Head,
History Department, Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, RI. I have
authored one book and numerous articles, essays, and book reviews on
Germany, Europe, religion, music, and education. I have written and
perform yearly a one-man play, "Honest Abe." Gotta dance!
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