After leaving Ridgewood Local I went to work for Shenendoah Local Schools in Noble County, Ohio. The district was farther south and father east and I was constantly thinking about the saying in Ohio Education; "Once you teach below I-70 you'll never teach above it again."

My predecessor at Shendnaoh was the first band director in the district and was a legend; at Shenendoah only because no one outside of the SE Ohio schools heard of him. A tin god position is never a good one to walk into but I took the job because it was all band all the time. The band was heavy into comptition and marched in an ancient style known as the Bill Moffit style. Squads of four marched as a unit and executed pinwheels, forward marches and even 270 degree turns.

The Zeps Band was a lot of fun to work with. I started a Jazz Band, the Concert Band was successful and we went to State Marching Band contest often. There were some problems with the past diector interfering with things I wanted to do and I had to finnally tell him to keep hands off the program. I began to make changes to modrenize the marching program. I eliminated twirlers, started a flag corps, implemented Field Commander leadership roles and upadated the drill design and show style. (side note; To this day the previous director has his hands in the program it has returned to it's floudering old self.)

After 8 years at Shenandoah, 1 marriage, 1 daughter and 1 divorce I moved from Shenandoah to the Cenral Ohio area to start my 11th year of teaching.