Edwina
Castle gave her vocational speech.
Edwina’s mother was a ballet teacher
and Edwina says she began dancing
while still in the womb. Edwina’s
father was an Army officer, and the
family moved around quite a bit during
Edwina’s early years. After a stint in
Germany, Edwina’s mother and the
children went to stay at her
grandparents’ farm in Oklahoma, while
her father fought in Vietnam.
Edwina loved her time in Colorado:
skiing, hiking, and fishing. It was in
Kansas that she first began to seriously
study ballet, at the Renate Edwards
Studios.
She
began her college career at Kansas City
Community College and moonlighted as a
telephone lineman, back in the days when
they were still called linemen.
Becoming
dissatisfied with her job, she moved to
Oregon to keep her grandmother company
and began attending Southern Oregon
State College in Ashland, where she
continued to study dance.
She
transferred to U of O and majored in
Botany to please her father, who thought
that dance wasn’t a serious career. She
continued to take as many dance classes
as she could and eventually transferred
to OSU to complete her degree in Botany.
It was
at OSU that she met her future husband,
John Castle. She and John moved to
Hawaii and became engaged there. They
moved to Redlands, California, and
Edwina reconnected with former
ballet colleagues.
Eventually, John and Edwina moved
to Oregon and began their family. They
have two sons, Robin and Ehren, and a
country estate with a large garden, an
orchard, and several pets.
Edwina has been teaching ballet at
gallery for 17 years and her business
continues to grow and thrive. She has
recently started teaching ballet at the
Community Center, in order to
accommodate all the students who want to
take classes from her.
Edwina is very involved in the
community and loves to travel with her
family.
She
continues to take master classes from
top ballerinas and keeps up with the
latest trends to prepare her students
for any opportunities they may choose.
Edwina is an energetic woman with a
zest for life.
President
Jan 
Lee
Vasquez 
