WLM Family Columnists

 

Karen
Karen Bienz began piano studies at the age of 7. She is experienced in organ, piano, synthesizer and has taught private piano students of all ages for over 15 years. Karen enjoys playing all types of music and encourages her students to do the same. Karen was a Music Together parent with her then 2 year old daughter when the family lived in Philadelphia in 1999. As a Vocal Performance Music Major from Whittier College, she was thrilled to learn that she could become a Music Together Teacher herself! Since 2001 Karen has taught more than 1,500 Music Together classes for mixed ages, preschoolers and infants and has served more than 250 Laramie families with studio classes and with the Music Together Licensed Preschool Program which is offered at Laramie's best preschools. Karen earned her Level I Music Together Certification in 2004. She is one of only 100 teachers worldwide to have earned her Level II Certification during an intensive 5 day workshop with program founders Ken Guilmartin and Lili Levinowitz, in August of 2006.
Dr. Kent Kleppinger, "Klep" to his patients, grew up in Casper, Wyoming and graduated with honors from the University of Wyoming. He received his medical degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and completed his Pediatrics Internship and Residency at Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. Following Residency, he did an additional year of Fellowship training in Ambulatory Pediatrics, where he had extra training in the field of Pediatric Development, Adolescent Medicine and Pulmonary Pediatrics. Dr. Kleppinger has practiced Pediatrics in Laramie since 1985. In January 1999 he opened his current office, Laramie Pediatrics, PC. Dr Kleppinger is Board Certified in Pediatrics and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Thoracic Society, AAP Section on Child Development and Section on Adolescent Medicine. He is currently the UW Athletics Team Physician, Medical Director to Cathedral Home for Children in Laramie and the Medical Director for WyoTech Student Health.
Gerise Vigaroli is a Director for Heritage Makers, a direct sales company that teaches its clients the art of storybooking, creating unique memories that last a lifetime. Gerise discovered this amazing company through an effort to find better solutions for her pictures. "Heritage Makers has helped me do everything I have ever dreamed of with my pictures," Gerise says. "I am able to archive my pictures quickly and easily while also sharing the stories behind them in a very detailed way." Gerise loves creating storybooks that details her childhood and wedding 24 years ago, as well as books for her three children, ages 23, 19 and 16. "What a joy it has been to see the faces of my children when they open a book I have created just about them!" Gerise says.

 

 

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