| I grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma graduating in a tie for first from MacArthur High School in 1980
I attended SWSU in Weatherford, Oklahoma receiving:
BA Sacred Music 1983
summa cum laude
BME Instrumental Education 1984
summa cum laude
MM in Music Education 1987
I studied with the Holy Cross Fathers (CSC) at Moreau Seminary at the University of Notre Dame
I served as Director of Sacred Music for the Catholic Diocese of Memphis as I worked on my doctorate at the University
of Memphis receiving my DMA in Sacred Music 1991
My dissertation was re-edited and is available as:
A Genre of Hindusthani Music (Bhajans) as Used in the
Roman Catholic Church
My second academic book is also published by the Edwin Mellen Press (http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?aid=1465&pc=10.
A History of the Sacred Musical Life of An Orthodox Church in America
Both are also available through Amazon.com
Several other books on music and Liturgy are available through Lulu.com
I was ordained as a Deacon and then as a Priest by the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America and currently serve
as Chanter at Saints Constantine and Helen Serbian Orthodox Church and as director of music. I also serve as Vicar Apostolic for the Diocese of the Pacific Coast and the Diocese of the Gulf Coast .
Member of the Galveston Rotary Club and Sgt at Arms Board of Directors of the Galveston Railroad Museum Admiral - Texas Navy Sons of Union Veterans o the Civil War 69th NYSV Historical Society, Caplain BSA Chaplain Bay Area Council
Eagle Scout, Ad Altare Dei, Pope Pius XII, Hornaday Award for Conservation, Vigil Honor Order of the Arrow, Scouter's Training
Award, Varsity Scout Leader Letter, Scouter's Key, Cross of Saint
George | 
