 HOMETOWN: Hopkinton, IA
UNI DEGREE: Ha! Ha! [While Steve didn't actually graduate from UNI, he was certainly a fixture in the early 90's!!! EMAIL: Steve disdains that technology stuff! CURRENT RESIDENCE: Anamosa, IA OCCUPATION: Sanitation Engineer and Stay-at-home Dad GREATEST LIFE EXPERIENCE: Having an autistic son! STRANGEST LIFE EXPERIENCE: Having an autistic son! Also, collecting old trucks (REAL trucks, like dump trucks and grain trucks!) as well as old cars GREATEST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Playing in the Eastern Iowa Brass Band - especially at the U.S. Open; attending the Master's Brass Band Competition in England; going on a brass band tour to England (and enjoying the English beer!) STRANGEST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Playing a Polka Mass; Playing with a polka band (same band for over 25 years!) at a Tombstone Pizza joint - a guy liked the band so much that he flew the whole band to Reno, NV to play at his mansion. The guy did this once a year for several years - until the bottom fell out of the real estate market! UNI TRUMPET STUDIO MEMORIES: 1) While working on musical concepts in a lesson (emotions), I was VERY successful in conveying a story. RG asked me to do the same thing in Trumpet Class, but NO ONE got it! It must have been the 8:00 a.m. class time!!! 2) Laughing hysterically in a lesson after RG demonstrated a breathing technique. It brought to mind Dave Rezek and Mike Erickson who used to perform an exaggerated impersonation of RG's breathing techniques! The lesson was a bust! RG asked Dave & Mike to demonstrate their impersonation during the next Trumpet Class, but they decided it would be a bad idea! | 
