With great love and appreciation always, I dedicate this website to the memory of my teacher, my mentor and my dear friend, Sandy Beam. Mr. Beam recognized the spark of my love for music when I was an 8 year old who added harmony to the songs he was teaching in his second-grade music class. (Our Dad worked out of town and Mom was home-bound due to the constant care of an older sister, handicapped from birth.) And because he cared, just as he went “above and beyond” for all of his students, Mr. Beam drove me