Chorister
Mezzo/alto with Christ Episcopal Church, Meadville, PA, the Allegheny College Chorus and the Youngstown (OH) Symphony Chorus.
WCC Alumni Email List Keeper
Maintains a list of Westminster Choir College Alumni email addresses. You may share your email address with other WCC alumni who are on our email list by filling out this form. Updated lists are emailed to participants periodically.
Also check out my WCC page.
Personal information
Education: Bachelor of Music in church music from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ. Also coursework at Thiel College, IUP and the University of Arizona.
Employment history: Currently MusiCopyist; Macintosh Computer Consultant, Director of Childrens Choir at Christ Church, Meadville, PA; formerly Choir director, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Hermitage, PA; choir director, Grace Lutheran Church, Mendham, NJ; Library technical assistant, Performance Collection of Talbott Library, Westminster Choir College; Instructor, adult ed, computers and accounting, Mercer County Career Center, Mercer, PA; Director of computer services, programmer/analyst, Northwest Tri-County IU, Edinboro, PA; Computer programmer, GATX, Masury, OH.
Interests: Choral singing, birdwatching, walking - but who has time when there is a web page to keep up?
Residence: Pymatuning Lake area
Email address: sihuston@pathway.net, Fax: (724) 932-3248 (email for instructions)
Personal Photo Links
CAUTION: The photos are in JPEG format but several pages are still large downloads.
Photos of my home and family
Photos of fall trees in the neighborhood.
Photos of the feral cats who adopted me and their friends
Photo of Westminster Choir College banner
Not-quite-links
William Witherup - composer - check out the list of his compositions.
Email him for more information.
Barbara Norton Ekey - photojournalist/author/educator writes motivational books and leads energetic workshops for students, teachers and other adults. Email her for more information about Creative Learning Adventures.
Elaine Harned - mezzo/voice teacher/organist, Princeton, NJ. Email her .
Ward Jamison - choral conductor, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA - especially good with amateurs but would love a chance to conduct a terrific group for a change. Email him for an educational, exciting concert or workshop experience.
Vicki Jamison - soprano/voice teacher, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. Email her for an appointment.
Mitzie Weiner - soprano, San Francisco Opera, loves mail. Email her and hear about her son Willie.
Pymatuning Neighborhood Links
My home faces Pymatuning Lake, a reservoir on the Ohio - Pennsylvania border built by the WPA in the 1930s. Our large lake has many assets, especially the 10 hp limit on motors. Although we lose a fisherman or two every spring to carelessness (email me if you're curious), we have a treasured quietude that makes Pymatuning a fisherman's paradise. The lack of waterskiers, speedboats and jet skis and the relatively flat Ohio terrain make the lake a sailor's delight as well. The dream of sailing from one end to the other and back usually becomes a nightmare as the length of the lake and the prevailing winds - or lack of them - can suddenly cause a very long paddle.
The wildlife here may not be very exotic - except perhaps during migrations - but it is abundant. There are 62 birds on my seen-from-my-yard life list which has not been updated for at least ten years. And I've never tried to identify warblers or shorebirds. I see bald eagles at least once every year. There is a beaver lodge on the island. Once upon a time we had snakes and huge toads but I haven't seen either around the house for many years. A family of ferrets or snakes would be nice as chipmunks have taken over. I only feed black oilseed to the birds, squirrels and chipmunks. I have only two large orange and one or two tiny red squirrels. Deer meander through the yard occasionally. There are wild turkeys (birds) in the neighborhood but I haven't seen them here yet. It's a great place to live!
Pymatuning Lake - Ernie Huffine's tribute to my favorite place on earth
Pymatuning - from PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Where the ducks walk on the fish - our most famous attraction
Mowery Trucking - my neighbors