| Here are pictures of some of the folks who showed up at the CD
release
parties held in Annandale, Virginia and Silver Spring, Maryland (Fall, 2000).
YOU should've been there! |
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Nattily dressed Bob Abrams and Goree Waugh hand over their cash to Ann "the Crusher" Merritt as they arrive. Ann is smiling because she loves collecting dough for me. Thanks, Ann. Ann's husband and my cousin Jim Merritt took these pictures. |
Jim staged this picture with my long-time actor pal John Degen, his wife Lola (right) and Annandale Times reporter Kim Costabile (foreground). |
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Another
actor friend, John Travolta, stopped by on a break from filming his next feature
in DC.
Actually, it's my former student Tom O'Connor, Northern Virginia soccer coach |
Bill Lowe in an intense conversation with my Mother, who sat across the table from him. Bill was one of two GREAT sax players in the first band I ever worked in, the famous (or infamous) Tor-Kays. Don't ask where we got that name, OK? |
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A slightly out-of-focus shot of Nina Cunningham Hart and her sister Mike Cunningham Lynch, a classmate of mine. Mike & I are the best of pals and Nina went to her first Homecoming dance with my brother Brad. These two drove to the show all the way from Norfolk, VA. Thanks, friends! |
A panoramic shot of part of the audience. Left to right, they are: Scott Bloom (DC area actor/director and former Mount St. Mary's student of mine), Norma and Tony Lupe of the Hawaiian Dance Review, John Degen, Bob Abrams, Kitty Merendino Hoover's daughter Meredith and Ms. Hoover herself. |
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Another group shot, including Sheila Tanner Rockholt and Karen McDonough Andrews (whose husbands were standing guard at the back wall), Barbara Schild Robinson and the ever-smiling Goree Waugh. All night long I kept wondering what he was smiling about... |
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Shipley Lowe and her granddaughter (one of two in attendance). Bill and Chris also brought
their son Kirk and daughter-in-law Jennifer. Is YOUR grandma this pretty? |
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There's that Goree again, smilin' at one of my stories, while keyboardist extraordinaire Michael Holmes, from a later AHS class (and a later band that followed in the steps of the Tor-Kays) asks a friend, "What's Goree smiling about?" |
Soon-to-be-published
author Mike Bishop won the prize for "the person who came from farthest
away." Mike drove up for the show from Hillsborough, North Carolina. |
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Another shot of the crowd. Former classmate Kitty and former student Tom did not know that I was a part of BOTH their histories. Coincidentally, Tom is Meredith's soccer coach. They were each surprised to see the other at the party! Small world... |
The ever-youthful and very happy Kathy and Chip Grange came out to listen in Silver Spring, Maryland. Chip and I have been friends since the 7th grade! |
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Former students Kate Marshall (blocked, left) and Barbara Betzler Purcell at the Silver Spring party. This was the last picture in my camera, and a venue employee walked into the shot (sorry, Kate!). Kate and Barb look exactly the same (to my eyes) as they did at Mount St. Mary's. |
Thanks to the man who made both parties possible, schoolboy friend and fellow singer/songwriter "TV John" Langworthy, who booked and performed at both gigs! |
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