Doug is serious professional church musician, but you will find him an all around fun regular guy. He has a great appreciation of the music of our rich Lutheran Heritage and has a special gift for organ accompaniment that uplifts and supports the singing of a smaller or mid-sized congregation. Doug, although he never makes much of himself, really could be serving anywhere.

A favorite hymn of his is "Blessed Assurance". Doug once mentioned to me, how his self-avowedly agnostic father, late in his life, made reference to a line from this hymn in a personal letter. He felt that it may have been a sign that beneath the surface, God had been working in him. Music we know has a unique ability to penetrate the soul, and through it often our faith is expressed better than we are able to do ourselves.
As far as the Lutheran hymn tradition goes, Doug is a firm fan of "A Mighty Fortress" in which he considers the essentials of Christian Theology to be "crystalized like gems". He has also been known even to call it the "Lutheran National Anthem"!

Ouside of church, Doug was recently honored on the 20th anniversary of his serving as accompanist for the American Reperatory Ballet - The Princeton Ballet School. He is also an avid collector of the autographs of "Space People" - that is to say, Astronauts, Cosmonauts and those who help them. He is currently working on a book project about the U.S. - Soviet space-race to the Moon.