In August of 2016, Ron and Judy will celebrate a Miami Merger of 44 years and are retired from satisfying careers, traveling on vacations, and enjoying life together.
Teaching, directing, choreographing, running a successful high school theater program - Mike Fielder's career on stage and backstage has covered performing and producing roles, and he credits the time he spent at Miami Middletown working with Mike McVey in the Dave Finkelman Auditorium and in class as a major source of his inspiration.
Nate Helsley, a Pharmacology and Nutritional Science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky, first experienced Miami University Middletown by taking a post secondary English class while a student at Monroe High School.
David Terrill's journey began at Miami Middletown after he graduated from Middletown Christian High School. Terrill cites his experiences at Miami as instrumental in the success he has achieved in the fields of illustration, greeting cards, advertising, brand marketing and now as a faculty member at the Kansas City Art Institute (Walt Disney's alma mater).
"Being able to live at home and take evening classes as well as day classes was an important option for me because I had two young children and had to schedule my life around them," she said.
Miami Middletown alumna Kelly Daniels has achieved a lifelong ambition of owning her own business, celebrating her first anniversary with a franchise of Pinot's Palette, a wine bar/art studio in Liberty Township.