Charm has always been a big part of my life.

It was a "charmed" life when I survived a twin-engine plane crash in May 1983 that left me critically injured with a broken back. It took me a year before I could walk again. Now I not only walk, but have returned to my passion for ballroom dancing.

I was raised by my grandparents on a farm in Kentucky and attended a Catholic School as a teenager in San Antonio, Texas.  I had been a tomboy, but the sisters introduced me to a whole new world of charm and the social graces.  Once introduced, charm, etiquette and modeling helped me become the woman that God created me to be.

I graduated from the E. Lane Ballard School of Charm and Etiquette in Washington D.C., the Patricia Stephens Modeling School in San Antonio, Texas and the Ben Shaw School of Charm, Etiquette and Modeling in San Antonio, Texas.

For the last 40 years I have owned and operated charm and etiquette schools, receiving recognition for my innovative and effective teaching methods as well as my dynamic musical fashion shows. I graduated the first male model in the state of Ohio and also gave the first musical fashion show there.

Modeling and dancing has become my passion. I was a ballerina with Russe de Monte Carlo for several years and taught ballet in Texas. I was one of the first in the state to teach dance to deaf and mute children.

I've worked with pageant contestants and some former students have been Miss Teen America winners. I was also invited by the prime minister of Dominica to train it's contestant for the Miss Caribbean title. She walked away with every title they had.

Contact me at (941) 306-1825