Brent Shires

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Pledged: Spring 1987
Hometown: Fairport, NY
Where do I  currently reside: Conway, AR

What I am doing currently:  It looks like I've pretty well planted my roots here. After living in Illinois and Wisconsin, I have now taught since 1999 as the Horn Professor at the University of Central Arkansas. I also play in the Arkansas Symphony, Conway Symphony, Pine Bluff Symphony, and Pinnacle Brass. In summer of 2008 I toured Arkansas, Austria and China performing with Pinnacle Brass and as a guest principal in Chinese orchestras. Summers I work at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. Married to wife and fellow musician Terrie since 1992, and our daughters are Rebecca (1998) and Rachel (2001). I have been fortunate to serve variously as Province Governor and Deputy PG of Province 4 since 2002. I plan to graduate from the University of Illinois with my DMA in Horn Performance and Literature, with minor in Music Education, in December 2008.
Memorable stories from my  times at Theta Iota: My memories include collecting cans for deposit money; my first glimpse of the Crane basement during ritual; all of us scheduling our Star Lake experience together an listening to Glenn Roberts belch the Guiness World's Record for longest and ugliest; great times in the end lounge of Knowles with Matt Sherrill; endless games of euchre disturbing my studying; meeting Dr. Frackenpohl thanks to a brother, which turned into a long-term friendship AND source of income as a part-writer; listening to a very teary-eyed Frank Leavitt singing Danny Boy to Helen Hosmer outside her house; learning to change my Pontiac's oil from "Unibrow" (M. Cordaro)
Any Family Information (Bigs, Littles, etc.): Big-Michael Cordaro, Little-Gerald Sullivan


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