245 W. Dartmouth
Gladstone OR 97027
1-503-656-7335
Home Page - http://linkup.orecity.k12.or.us/debby
E-mail - lyttled@webwizardry.net
December, 1997
Born and raised in the Portland area, Debby began her music studies on the violin in fourth grade when it was offered at Ardenwald grade school in Milwaukie. She started studying piano the following year with Shirley Montgomery, and continued throughout high school. In junior high she discovered the bells hiding in the back room and dropped violin to play bells in the band. At Clackamas High School the band director, John Bigelow, handed her a pair of timpani sticks and said, "See what you can do!"
She attended Clackamas Community College on a music scholarship for two years and married Ron Lyttle in the middle of spring term (bad timing). She dropped half her classes, went to work, and a year and a half later her son Andy was born. Being a stay-at-home full-time mom was mind-numbing, so she went back to CCC one class at a time. Anna was born 18 months later. Being a mother to two small children consumed most of her time, but she finally finished at CCC and, continuing with one class at a time, she graduated from Marylhurst in December of 1986 with a B.A. in Music. During this time she was the accompanist for the choirs at Gladstone High School. With the passage of Measure 5 in '89, her job was cut. Having seen it coming, she attended Warner Pacific College and received her teaching license in '92. She is currently teaching general music, band, choir, orchestra, and Spanish to home-schoolers in the Linkup program in the Oregon City School District.