WWC Theatre Alumni Blog

Trish, Rik and Davey Wade Update:
this year, Trish finally got her BS and started teaching high school Biology and Math. She enjoys it a lot of the time, but her math kids are the “children about to be left behind” variety so that can be a bit frustrating. She still wants to work with animals, so she also works a couple of nights a week as a Vet Tech in one of 2 all-night vet clinics in the city. On a bizarre side note, one of their clients is Gary Coleman, who has 4 cats, all named after his girlfriend. Whachoo talkin’ ‘bout, Trish?!
Rik is still waiting to find out if he got into law school and working as the “ok, I’ll do that, too…” guy at a software company. He and Kirby Wilson (Kirby Chavez when he was a music major at Western) still play in a band together and have their first gig with their new (5th) drummer in a couple of weeks, sharing the bill with Phillip Dysart’s (Tommy drummer) band. They still don’t have the album they recorded at Electric Ladyland 2 years ago.
Davey is 7 and a brown belt in Karate. He’s in the first grade and a law-abiding citizen. He’s got a bright red ¾ size flying V guitar he likes to make up songs on.
As for all of us, we’re getting set to go to California next month for Jay Sheely’s (guitar/mandolin player for a lot of shows) wedding, where Rik will be best man; we’re still on the waitintg list to adopt, having hit the average length of wait about 6 months ago (we’re the only family on the list that already has a kid, which has worked against us); and we see a lot of WWCC alum who live here, like Jen Rouse, Jay Sheely, Kirby Wilson, Jesse Mills (Godspell drummer), Cory Bury, Joe Merrit (Tommy guitar player), Amy Pernich (Tommy keys), Phillip Dysart, August Witzgall, yada yada. Seriously, if you want to see old friends, come to Salt Lake. There’s a mob of them here, and we have a great guest room. 801-523-3864.