KENNETH JAMES BALL

Mr. Ball was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 1953. He is single and a member of Cabanne United Methodist Church. He is ambitious, honest, dependable, responsible, patient and persistent. He is the father of one daughter, Andrea.

My daughter always makes good grades in school and all of her teachers say she has a model personality. She also shows natural talent in the music and arts field. She loves the stage for she's a natural ham like me.

The pain would be so bad I could not put on my own socks without help. I was determined to finish school. With a lot of help and patience on the part of my mother, my own perseverance and God's help, I was able to finish school and find a job. I dealt with the pain for eight years. I have been blessed not to have been bothered with it for more than a year. I have been making the most of it.

My occupation is serving as an instrumental music teacher and piano technician. I am employed by the St. Louis Board of Education and myself. As a music teacher, I love children and I love teaching music. As a piano tuner, I am my own man and I run it and it feels great!

I am a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and have served as their talent hunt chairman.

My hobbies are weight lifting and swimming. My favorite television programs are FAME, ROOTS and THE JEFFERSONS. I like books that are informational. I rarely sit down to read novels.

DISCRIMINATION: An instance of discrimination which occurred to me happened like this: I was in Florida visiting, I started to enter a certain bar and was told not to go in by a bunch of hillbillies who were standing around. Seeing that I was a thousand miles from home - I kindly left.

As a child, I got spankings, but really don't remember anything I did of real significance.