PERSONAL
I began my life’s adventure in
Greenville Hospital on August 3, 1950. My parents, Art and Norma Williams, raised me along
with my sister Sondra (now Sondra Wiggins) in the Transfer area about one mile from my
alma mater, Reynolds High School.
My dad, a graduate of the former Transfer High School, and a vetaran of the U.S. Navy,
where he served as a Fire Controlman on a destroyer (U.S.S. McGown 678) in the south
Pacific during WW II is retired from the former CB & I Plant, (Chicago Bridge &
Iron) and now the former site of Trinity Industries, where he worked for 33 years until
the plant closed in 1982 and currently resides in Meadville PA. My mom, the former
Norma Jean Stuver, who is now deceased, graduated from Greenville High School in 1944. She
was a Stanley Home Products dealer, softball & basketball coach and a former bus
driver for Reynolds School District. In addition, my maternal grandparents, Peter and
Mabel Williams (Transfer Area) and Troy and Ruby Stuver (Greenville Area), and their
families were from the Greenville area. My roots and relationships have connected me
fondly to the Greenville area all my life.
EDUCATION
I attended Transfer Elementary School
in grades 1 through 6 and Reynolds High School in grades 7 through 12. I graduated from
Reynolds in 1969 after lettering in both football and basketball for three years. I
currently hold the career rebounding record with 806 rebounds. I started my collegiate
career at the local branch campus in Farrell with the then Edinboro State College where I
played on the Off-Campus basketball team. I completed my Bachelor of Education degree on
campus in 1974. While teaching in West Virginia, I earned my Masters Degree in Speech
Communication at West Virginia University in 1979.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I began my teaching career at the
Whitesville Junior High School in Whitesville, West Virginia in 1974 and continued there
until 1990. I taught a 5th grade self-contained classroom and a computer class
for the 9th grade students. In addition, I was head coach for the girls’
junior high basketball team and assistant coach with the junior high boys’ basketball
program.
Locally, when I moved back to the Reynolds area in 1990, I substituted as an elementary
teacher in the Greenville, Reynolds, and Sharpsville School Districts. In 1995 and 1996, I
coached a girls and boys varsity basketball program at a local Christian high school where
I also taught a basic computer course.
VIDEO & INTERNET BUSINESS
In 1989, while still teaching in West
Virginia, I established a video service business, ACW Productions. When I returned home
after the death of my mother in 1990, I continued my video business in the local area.
From 1991, I have worked full time with my video business that has expanded into a variety
of projects and many specialty services. The bulk of my work has been in the Greenville
area ranging from
business to personal projects. I have worked with the Horizon Hospital System (presently
UPMC Horizon), ENT Allergy and Associates (presently Advanced Integrative Medicine
Center), and Trinity Industries; and have produced football highlight tapes and video
scrapbooks of Greenville High School; filmed community plays, local dance recitals, proms
plus a wide variety of personal work for people in the Greenville area.
In 1997, ACW Productions expanded into the Internet service business
providing a variety of Internet services such as web page design & management, domain
name registration and domain site hosting. Locally three personal sites
that ACW Productions has created and
manages are the Greenville Area Web Site www.Greenville-PA.Com and
two sport
sites; www.GreenvilleFootball.Com
and www.ReynoldsWrestling.Com. Currently ACW
Productions hosts and manages over twenty business & community web sites. |
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