Robin Sprenkle - Chappars
Louisville, KY


Biography

Following graduation from Penfield Central High School, I attended the University of Rochester and met my beloved husband Steve. He graduated in 1963 and joined the Marine Corps. We married two weeks after my graduation in 1964, moving often while Steve was on active duty. I returned to Rochester while he was on tour in Viet Nam. Eventually we settled in West Chester, PA, bought a house and started our family. After seven years we moved to Newark, DE. I began to play the cello again after almost 12 years, took more lessons, and joined my first professional orchestra, the Delaware Symphony. We eventually moved to Louisville, KY in 1983 where Steve started his own marketing business. I continued to play the cello, performing with most of the major groups in Louisville, including the Louisville Orchestra, Music Theatre Louisville, and Derby Dinner Theater. I currently belong to a string quartet (www.quartetlouisville.com), teach at the Louisville Academy of Music (www.laofm.org), and sing in our 140 person church choir. Steve is an active tennis player, I have made recordings for the blind, and we have worked on about 7 Habitat houses with our church.

We have a daughter Peg, 42, a computer technician, who lives in Gulfport, FL, and a son, Jim, 40, who is married and has a 2 year old daughter, Meghan. They live nearby and we are blessed to have Meghan to ourselves two days a week. We are very active in our church and Bible study and are trying to cut back on work responsibilities so that we can travel more. We have been to Greece and are planning to go to Ireland in the near future. We enjoy spending several weeks during the summer in the Adirondacks, playing golf whenever we can, and visiting family in PA, FL, and CA.

Best Regards to all.