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In the 1970s, Perry Passen was a pommel horse phenom. Perry’s dream was to compete in the Olympics and become the first U.S. pommel horse gold medalist since Anton Heida in 1904. Following the 1972 games, the International Olympic Committee made several rule additions, one of which being section 1, line 2, subsection B, stating all athletes must dismount the pommel horse to the right or receive an automatic disqualification. Upon receiving the updated rules, Perry failed to read line 2. During the U.S. Olympic trials, Perry’s flawless pommel horse exercise had everyone in awe – perfect extensions, controlled twists, excellent hip height and Perry’s signature handstand, and then the dismount. Perry landed to the left and pumped his fists in anticipation of the crowd’s reaction. He heard no applause as everyone was gasping and then saw that he received a dismount disqualification. He crouched down in horror. He was in such shock, that he couldn’t unbend his legs to stand and remained in a crouched state.

One day, as Perry remained crouched in the corner of his parent’s living room, Perry’s dad, Tom, threw him a soda. Without looking, Perry caught the soda. Tom got to thinking and began to throw other things Perry’s way – apples, oranges and a baseball. Perry masterfully snagged each item as it approached him. It didn’t take Perry long to become an all-star high school catcher and earned a place on The Ohio State University baseball team. Upon receiving his degree, Perry stood upright for the first time in 6 years. Fearing he had lost his edge as a catcher, no Major League Baseball team drafted Perry, so instead, Perry began a career in advertising.

Inspired by creativity and food, Steve’s original passion and career was as a gourmet chef. Just like many head chefs, Steve had a temper when substitutions were made or added to his masterpieces. This resulted in a table-wrestling incident where Steve body slammed a patron who added salt to Steve’s world-renowned soufflé. Fortunately for Steve, the man he body slammed was a promoter for professional wrestlers. This man convinced Steve to put his cooking career on hold and turn to a life of wrestling. He was known as the Iron Chef and would routinely tap into his rage to beat his opponent. During a wrestling event in early 1994, a group of television executives happened to be in attendance. They had been struggling for a new show idea and thought a night of barbarianism would help clear their minds. What they didn’t expect was the Iron Chef. As they watched Steve defeat opponent after opponent after opponent and remain the Iron Chef, king of the ring, the execs all came up with the same idea for a television show, and in the fall of 1994, Friends aired for the first time.

Steve eventually hung up his tights and apron and looked for a career with fewer bodies flying. He has yet to find it, but for now, enjoys being creative on a Mac.

Andy is best known as the original Animal from the Muppets. In the spring of 2008, Animal got lost after a photo shoot but then saw a familiar little green frog face walking ahead of him. He followed the frog several blocks hoping to find his other friends, but instead ended up on a new street – better known as, Sesame Street. Animal found “the street” to be a magical place where colors were more vibrant, letters were bolder and numbers were…number-ie-er. He decided to stay. Over time, and contrary to his trademark wild man persona, he began to find an inner peace – when he felt a bout of rage coming on, he would close his eyes and count, with the Count, to 10. He discovered the joys of being both near and far, how to tell when one thing was not like the other and learned new songs about rubber duckies. Unfortunately, there is a rule on the street that visitors can stay no longer than a week and are forbidden to tell others how to get to said street. Animal returned to his life with his Muppet friends, but when they discovered where he had been, they became relentless in trying to get Animal to crack and tell them all how to get to Sesame Street. One particularly spunky pig threatened to “HIYA” him to pieces if he didn’t spill the beans. For his safety, he was placed into witness protection and assumed the identity of Andy Wahlenmaier. He was placed in a low-key job as a web designer/programmer for PPA Graphics.

We probably shouldn’t have mentioned any of this, but who reads the about us section of a website anyway.

Kimberly has always been “family” oriented. Growing up, she spent most days learning about the family business with her godfather, Don Luigi. Being very good with numbers and calculation, Kimberly studied finance and accounting in college. Don Luigi’s brother, Mario, knew a guy who knew a guy who helped get Kimberly her first job managing the books for a large central Ohio meatpacking company. Suppliers, vendors and even employees learned quickly that Kimberly wasn’t someone who would be pushed around. In fact, Kimberly was known to put many a person in their place, and if she really didn’t like someone, they went away. Where they went exactly no one ever asked, they just referred to it as “Severance pay.”

Tired of the day-to-day meatpacking grind, Kimberly eventually said goodbye to the job and moved to the country. After some much needed time off, Kimberly was ready to get back to work. She knew a guy who heard of a guy who was in need of a business manager. Kimberly has been with PPA ever since and fortunately, no one has been put on Severance pay.

Since childhood, Kara has had two passions in life; horses and NASCAR. It’s difficult to combine these two passions – unless you are Kara. In 2016, Kara began harness racing with her trusty steed, Judah. Unfortunately for the other horses and their riders, Kara and Judah were unbeatable, winning every race by an average of four furlongs. Kara and Judah became bored with the lack of competition and it was at that time when a pair of NASCAR representatives named George Joseph and Joseph George approached Kara about a new opportunity. That’s right, Kara became the first and only, 1 horsepower NASCAR racer in history. Other drivers scoffed at the entire idea and called it nothing more than a publicity stunt. As it turns out…they were right. Kara and Judah finished dead last in every race, but this didn’t stop Judah from becoming a star. He loved the spotlight and let it go to his head, even charging 10 apples for every shoe print. With Kara’s help, he has managed to keep his ego in check, but he will soon be appearing in the not-so-much anticipated remake of Mister Ed, staring Judah as Mister Ed and Nicholas Cage as Wilbur.

Kara on the other hand has returned to her backup passions of graphic design and photography.

REAL EDUCATION:

Conan the Grammarian’s Finishing (but NEVER with a preposition) School

After an unfortunate public school incident involving a red pen and some restroom graffiti, Lynn transferred to CGFS, earning a full scholarship based on her back-to-back spelling bee and expository essay contest wins. Safely ensconced in an environment where people knew that an apostrophe s makes a possessive, not a plural, Lynn was finally able to come to grips with a world that will never properly use reflexive pronouns.

Due to her inability to remember passwords or become literate on a PC-based platform, Lynn eventually married her tech support guy, Rick. They have three children…Gerund, Subjunctive and Antecedent.

UNKNOWN FACT::

Lynn is the founder of the “To, Too, Two” Mission, which is committed to ending homophone abuse nationwide.

Torn between the glamour of being a nun and her gift of drawing, Lisa was naturally drawn to the Columbus Convent of Art & Devine (the other CCAD) where she excelled and later became the top high school art teaching nun in Ohio. Contrary to Bob Ross, Lisa does not believe in happy accidents and would routinely smack her students with brushes, pencils or whatever she could swing. This led to the controversial Billy Baily Brush-wacking Incident of 1994, and ultimately, Lisa’s resignation from teaching and the Sisterhood. This allowed Lisa to focus her efforts on her art and discover her new loves – animals, baking, bacon and coffee.

Lisa routinely brings baked goodies in to her fellow PPA team as well as security officer Breezy, who works for bacon. On most days, Lisa can be found sitting quietly, working away on a great new design, but occasionally she finds the coffee pot empty and this leads to knuckles once again cracking – but not actual cracking of knuckles as Lisa can’t stand the sound.

UNKNOWN FACT::

Before joining CCAD, Lisa had a brief career in Las Vegas – you know her better by her stage name, Bad Habit Betty.

Following high school, Amy moved to New York City to pursue a career as a ballerina with a well-known ballet company. Like all those in her profession, Amy was completely consumed with dance and grew up in a home with a suffocating ex-ballerina mother. Amy’s big break came when her director opted to move Amy into the featured role in Swan Lake, replacing Russian prima ballerina, Tatyana Svetlana Yana Rozalina Polina Bagrov. Amy’s new fame came with much torment and jealousy from rival dancers and led to what Amy refers to as her “dark days.” Emotionally spent, Amy retired from dancing and returned to her roots in central Ohio and began pursuing a career in the graphic arts. Not wanting anything more to do with dance, Amy married a decent man named Fred, who has no dancing rhythm what-so-ever.

Amy’s dance career was adapted into the acclaimed 2010 Hollywood film, Black Swan.

UNKNOWN FACT::

After contemplating a career in motorcross, Amy decided to simply spend her free time as a Ducatista.

Andrew naturally began his career as a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts. One summer, Andrew led a group of scouts on a camping trip along the Kananaskis River in the Canadian Rockies. One day while fishing, the scouts encountered an aggressive, 700 lb. grizzly bear. Andrew jumped into action and wrestled the bear with his bare hands. It only took 2 minutes, but Andrew worked his way onto the bear’s back and locked him into a chokehold. The bear submitted to Andrew’s grasp and the scouts fashioned a cart out of logs and hitched it to the bear. Andrew rode atop the bear, pulling the cart with the scouts to safety. When asked by news reporters about the ordeal, Andrew was quoted saying, “beat that, Chuck Norris.” Chuck Norris accepted the challenge and now has three grizzly bears as house pets – Uppercut, Roundhouse and Buttons. Living in shame for calling out Chuck Norris, Andrew turned to the world of graphic arts as a safe haven.

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A born tenor with a natural vibrato, John spent his early years studying opera. As a high school senior, John received superior marks at every competition he entered, including the prestigious Opera High Notes of Ohio competition (commonly referred to as “OhNo!”). Following school, John headed to New York City in hopes of finding his big break. He worked singing table-side at a high-end pizza parlor called Malone’s Calzone. In 2004, John’s big break came when he was serenading a table, which included several Broadway talent agents. Together they collaborated on the off-Broadway, one-man show titled, “Her Man.” On opening night, while performing “Il Mio Cuore Va” and unbeknownst to the audience, John accidentally swallowed a spider that had spun it’s web from the rafters down towards John’s microphone. The ensuing four minutes has become known within opera circles as the “Itza-bitza-spida Sonata.” John was choking and gagging all while trying to belt out the song, completely out of tune. The incident culminated when the spider was spewed into the hair of a prominent guest seated in the second row. Needless to say, “Her Man” only ran for one show, but John’s four infamous minutes will go on.

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