Hi Friends,
After Central - Degree in Physics ASU, Graduate School Texas A&M, teaching certificate ASU.
Taught 30 years Edison Jr. High - all Sciences; Department Head last 5 years before retirement from teaching in 2001.
I am a master faceter and have cut gemstones since about 1976. In 1976 my brother Paul Worden and I codesigned the Lone Star Cut, which in 1977 was designated "The Official Gemstone Cut of the State of Texas" by the Texas Legislature in House Concurrent Resolution #97.
I met my wife Charis Martin on a Sierra Club trip down into Devil's Sinkhole in 1980 (another story!). We married in 1981 and have one daughter, Deanna Worden Fletcher, who is a Registered Dietician. Charis is a Registered Occupational Therapist, I still travel to Big Bend every year to lead off-trail hikes into wild areas.
Charis and I both love music - she plays just about all the stringed instruments that I don't. After retirement from teaching I learned to play violin, then started repairing them and finally building (so far....) around 30 violins, concert/ solo/professional grade, mostly out of native mesquite.
Currently I play fiddle in three bands: North Forty (Bluegrass/gospel/old time); Shady Grove (mainly old time) at the Chicken Farm; and occasionally the Pardners (country/western). These bands play everywhere - private parties, every nursing home in town, Fort Concho, and for special events/occasions in San Angelo.
See y'all around!