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My name is Dan Treharne. I graced the world with my presence in Orlando, Florida on November 1st (All Saint's Day) 1979,
making me a Scorpio. Not long after I was born, my family moved to a quaint little town called Shelby, NC. From Jefferson
Elementary School, to Shelby Middle School, and on through Shelby High School (Go Golden Lions!), I spent all my school years
in Shelby.
In high school, I was in the band - played the greatest instrument in the band, the trombone - and heavily into both sides
of theatre. I started out in the technical arena of theatre. I helped design and run sound for Boys Next Door the second
semester of my freshman year. Then, during the musical, Li'l Abner, I finally got on stage. I was just one of the husbands,
and I was put on stage a week or so before the show opened, but that was the start of what was to become a whirlwind high
school experience. From then I was in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Jimmy Dean and Joe); Romeo
and Juliet (Tybalt); How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Wally Womper); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Eugene); The
Wiz (The Wiz); Tartuffe (Orgon); Brighton Beach Memoirs Revisited (Eugene); Fiddler on the Roof (Lazar Wolfe); and I student/co-directed
Steel Magnolias my senior year. I also did any and all kinds of tech work for these shows. For Fiddler I, along with my
buddy Robert Couch and a group of techies, built a six foot tall king size bed that could hold upwards of 800 pounds - a good
portion of which on a back ledge. This a good example of the kind of work I contributed to the Shelby High School Drama Program.
When I decided to go to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I also decided to try for the North Carolina Teaching
Fellows Program. I went through all the application and interview processes and was accepted into the program. It has some
faults and a lot of red tape that I have to jump through, but in the end it is worth every minute. I got into the schools
observing while I was still a freshman, and I have been in a school observing every semester since then. I have also had
the chance to do many different things all throughout the state. I went to a photography workshop, I observed the inner workings
of a school system, and I took a bus tour of North Carolina, looking at all kinds of different school systems. The Teaching
Fellows Program is definitely worth the headache it can sometimes cause.
I spent my last year of college as both Administrative Assistant and Welcoming Committee Co-chair for
Cornelia Strong College. I was, by the grace of God, able to keep these appointments while student teaching at Southwest
Guilford High School - Go Cowboys! On May 16th, 2003, I gradutated cum laude from UNC Greensboro with a BFA in Theatre Education.
In the summers I usually split my work between various theatre summer camps and the local First National Bank, where I pick
up the odd jobs that need to be done. It can be tedious, but it does offer a different pace and routine from the rest of
the year, which is nice.
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Everybody's Got a Superhero Inside
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*The story behind The Flannel Mystic is a good one. I think the flannel part is fairly obvious, but for those of you who
don't like to think or make connections, I like flannel. A lot. I don't have a shrine to it in my room or anything (not
enough space), but I do enjoy the fabric known as flannel.
*The mystic part is a little more interesting. My sophomore year of college - Fall, 1999 - I am sitting in my room not
doing much when Glen Baity knocks on my door. He is having trouble with his stereo. It refuses to play and is generally
giving him a hard time, and he wants me to take a look at it. Not really knowing what I could do that he hasn't already tried,
I go to his room to, at the very least, stare at the thing in a very manly, problem-solving way. When we get to the room,
Glen goes to show me what is happening (or not happening, as the case may be) with the stereo. Of course, as you all could
have guessed, the stereo works fine. I go back to my room, content in having handled the situation well.
*A few minutes later, a message is posted to Strong-l, the Strong College discussion/information e-mail list-serve, from
Glen extolling the feats of the Mystical Treharne. It went on about how the mere presence of the Mystical Treharne was enough
to fix his woe-begotten stereo. Thus the madness began. After the Mystical Treharne came into being, some attempts were
made to make the name cooler. One of the predominant names suggested by Sherrill Hayes was Mr. Mystic.
*About this time, the Strong College Action Heroes came to light. These were alter egos created about vairous influential
people within Strong College. My friends Krista and Elizabeth were among those portrayed. Well, in the creation of these
characters, we needed a superhero name for me. The Mystical Treharne wasn't quite flashy enough. After much deliberation,
The Flannel Mystic was born. Sporting a turban, crystal ball, and Spawn-esque cape of flannel, The Flannel Mystic graced
the concept page along with his fellow Strong College Superheroes.
*This is how the Flannel Mystic came to be - although "He's a fictional superhero designed after me," probably
would have been sufficient explanation. Wasn't my way just a bit more interesting, though?
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