People whose last name begins with A
Joseph (Joey) AccomandoJoey left us in November, 1989
| Joey was one of our great singers and was featured as the “Zigfield Tenor” in our production of Funny Girl at Parker Playhouse. After Performing Arts he attended FAU and sang with Florida Atlantic University Community Orchestra and Chorus. Joey was a soloist for Haydn’s The Creation back in 1973. He later sang with the Southern Illinois University where he was a graduate student. Joey was the owner of Sgt. Yukon’s Singing Telegram Service in Chicago until his death in 1989. |
Cheryl Ale
| Cheryl Ale has enjoyed being a professional dancer, choreographer, co-choreographer, actress, teacher, and business woman for the past 35 years. Cheryl danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, performed in Equity musical theater, and in classical ballet productions around the world. As a lifetime student of the RPM Master Pedagogue Ruth Petrinović, Cheryl brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, and leadership to the management of Revolutionary Principles of Movement. Her book, The Spark, demonstrates that the revolutionary principles have been the central focus of her life. Her mission is to help teachers with the important and incremental lessons that lead their students to their greatest potential, and as a result, cohesive lifetime bonds are created through teaching the principles. For more information: |
Alma Anthony (Memrava)Pictured here with her daughter Joan. | Alma was one of the great supporters of the Performing Arts adventure. For the school-within-a-school year at Nova, Alma was instrumental in the curriculum development that was the best I have ever seen. |
Mickey Anthony (Rose Hawley)Daughter of Alma
| Rose Hawley Check out her Facebook page: Art In The Dairy Contact: artinthedairy@gmail.com |
Joan Anthony (Freeman)Daughter of Alma
| As Alma and Mickey (now Rose) mellowed over the years, this other third of the Anthony Sisters just became feisty. After leaving Nova in 1974, I followed a boyfriend to Columbia, SC and landed at the University of South Carolina majoring in journalism. Boredom took over and without getting a degree, I took a job in 1981 working for a group of ophthalmologists. Through a much protested blind date, I met my future husband. One day during my lunch hour in 1983 I married Woody Freeman. Woody held a music theory degree and worked for the South Carolina Educational Network. I continued to work my way through the ranks at the Columbia Eye Clinic. I rose to supervisor and eventually became a doctor’s personal assistant. Due to extreme pressure and long hours, I began suffering grand mal seizures. As a young girl, I suffered seizures but they lay dormant for years. Advice from Woody to retire under disability fell on deaf ears. I loved my job too much. Finally, after having several embarrassing grand mal seizures at work within just a few months, I took retirement two years ago. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. A few years earlier, Woody left his job to pursue his music. A home recording studio brings in much freelance work. For the past ten years he has been the keyboardist in a part time Beach/Top 40 band traveling the southeast. For health reasons, I began running upon retirement. I began competing this year and discovered I’m addicted to the sport. My other love is correcting grammatical errors in the media. That comes from having an English-teacher mother. It has continuously irked me that SC ranks 49th in the country in education. Because Columbia’s only newspaper professes to be a teaching tool to our state schools, I have written several letters to the editor expressing my displeasure with its grammatical errors. And surprisingly, my snotty letters have always been published. I have countless chances to travel, but I enjoy my home life. I answer to no one to which Alma and Rose can attest. Today I am a little less shy, a little less gullible, and extremely happy.
Joan Freeman |
Lydia Anunziata
| Lydia was a proud dance major at the Foundation. We are awaiting more info from Lydia. |
Jim Azar
| I spent three years in Army Intelligence (I know, spare me the oxymoron jokes) as an interrogator which led me back to South Florida by 1980. I wrote poetry and plays, one of which was produced at Miami’s first Festival of the Arts in 1982. I earned a B.A. in English Literature from Florida Atlantic University. After graduation, I won a scholarship to do some grad work in Eng. Lit. at Exeter College at Oxford, England, and returned home for the birth of my second daughter. I married Cindy in 1983; her daughter Karon is 20 and our daughter Brittany is 12. We moved to Salisbury, Maryland in 1988 to start a trucking business with Cindy’s brothers and I sold my stock in the company in 1990. I became Vice President of Sales for Milliken & Michaels, Inc., the largest commercial collection agency in the world. I retired from M&M in March of 1998 to resume my writing fulltime. I contracted bladder cancer in 1997 (and beat it!) only to discover a second primary cancer in July of 1998 in my right lung. My friends know me as a fighter, and I intend to beat this nuisance too. I have one chapbook of Poetry “Arrival: One or Only?” LaPress Publications: Hollywood, Florida 1983, and individual poems published in small anthologies and reviews. After I recover from cancer surgery in mid-September, 1998, I plan to go back to writing, living and loving with a new vengeance. I do hope that Roger Davies can find a better recent photo of me – pursing my lips about to say “Roger, wait a second” is not how I wish others to know my adult countenance (Roger, I am laughing quite hard right now).
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