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Lance Hoffman
Bass/Baritone, Charter Member since Spring 2015
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FIRST CHORAL SINGING:
I started singing in elementary school and continued in my high school chorus. The highlight of our year was singing in All-City Chorus under Maestro William Steinberg of the Pittsburgh Symphony. On the way to rehearsal, we took over a streetcar and harmonized, much to the surprise of the other passengers.
MEMORABLE CHORAL SINGING NOT WITH SFS:
I met my wife (fellow SFS chorister Mary Anne Hoffman) in the line waiting for Messiah sing-along tickets at the Kennedy Center. We saw each other annually at that event “same time next year” for about five years until it became serious.
But I didn’t sing (except for the Messiah and in the shower) after high school, until our group was started in late 2014.
CAREER
I began my computer science career at Carnegie Mellon University, where the mainframes were so huge and the machine rooms so cold that we stored frozen margaritas in the air conditioning ducts above the memory units of the Bendix G-20 computer (the same Bendix company associated with washing machines).
As a professor, I started up the cybersecurity graduate programs at both UC Berkeley and GW, and have mentored several students who went on to start their own companies. The scholarship program I directed at GW until I retired has provided full-ride scholarships for over 100 graduates who have then gone on to work for government agencies. What is not on my professional resume is how I and a fellow grad student founded a computer dating service for summer students at Stanford (see the blurb from 1969 on the right).
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