ello, my name is Kathy Brod, and here is a little bit about myself:

     I'm presently 62 years of age. I don't feel that age and certainly don't act it. I was born in southeastern Oklahoma and graduated from high school there I have lived a lot of my life in Texas, Dallas and El Paso. I was very interested in music. I played the piano and sang. I also played trombone in the school band. Upon graduation, I married my high school band director. We had two children, a boy and a girl. We moved all over Oklahoma and finally wound up in El Paso, Texas. While I was in El Paso, I learned to play the organ and played for my church, a Methodist church and many other churches. I was the Dean of the American Guild of Organists at one time. While I lived in El Paso, I earned my bachelor's degree in education at the University of Texas at El Paso. I taught school there for 11 years. One of the things that really bothered me in my teaching is that I never knew how to teach the children how to study. I can remember telling the students one time to take their books home and study for a test. A student asked me how to study and I told them that I wasn't sure and he should probably just read it over and over again. This marriage ended in divorce after 20 years of married life. I then met and married a retired service man. He had 4 children that he had raised by himself. Our children were all about the same age and got along very well. After we had been married for about a year, we moved to Iran. I enjoyed living and working in Iran. I taught school there at an International school. It was very strange because when I first arrived I was going to try to work at the American School. Someone told me that I should first check with a friend of theirs about where I should teach. This friend of theirs turned out to be someone that I had graduated from college with in El Paso. I wound up working where she did. We lived in Iran for a year. We broke the contract and left because my husband was not happy at his job. Our friends who were on the same contract had to be evacuated as this was the time of the Iran hostage situation. We were lucky. We moved to Edmond, Oklahoma where I taught school for a year and then opened a music studio. My studio was very successful. I also attended the university there and earned my Masters in Music. It was while we lived in Edmond that I became acquainted with Scientology. There was a small mission there run by our insurance man's son. My husband started taking classes first and then I got interested. I was audited on the Dianetics auditing by our insurance man's wife. It was great and helped me a lot. The biggest revelation to me was that Scientology showed me how to study and how to teach others to study. Here is what I had been looking for when I first started teaching school. I presently use that study method in my music studio. We decided to study Scientology further so we sold our home and began our life in Scientology. The last year that we were there, our son's marriage became a disaster and he and his wife were getting a divorce. They had a child who was 3 months old. Neither one of them could really take care of her, so they allowed us to adopt her. This was a wonderful thing to have happen to us. We have truly loved her. We moved to Dallas and then to Clearwater, Florida. In Florida my husband and I did a lot of training in the church's courses. While there I also played organ for a Methodist church in Seminole. All through the years I have played organ for the churches and am still playing organ today for a Lutheran church. Many people are of the opinion that when you become a Scientologist that is the only church that you can belong to. That is not true. I have continued in churches throughout the years I have been in Scientology. Scientology is a religious philosophy and the church as we know it (Methodist, Lutheran, etc) is a religious practice. I have been in Scientology for about 17 years. After my training in Florida, I joined the staff of the church in Dallas. I spent 2 1/2 years there helping them grow. When our daughter was school age, we decided to move to Oregon to work at the Delphian School. This is a private international boarding school that delivers the L. Ron Hubbard study tech in a school atmosphere. It is not a Scientology school, however. The student body is about half non-Scientologists. Our daughter is now 16 and is in high school here. At the school I play for the choir. Our choir has taken 4th place in the state competition for the past two years. I really enjoy playing for the choir. I don't know what the future holds for me but I have been very happy with my life so far.