Ellen Eugenia Foster Randle

Background

Randle, Ellen Eugenia Foster was born on October 2, 1948 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Richard A.G. and Thelma Lousie Foster.

Education

Student, California State College, Sonoma, 1970; studied with Boris Goldovsky, 1970; student, Graduate School Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1974; studied with Tito Gobbi, Florence, 1974; student, University California, Berkeley, 1977; Bachelor in World History, Lone Mountain College, 1976; Master of Arts in Performing Arts, Lone Mountain College, 1978; studied with Madam Eleanor Steber, Graz, Austria, 1979; studied with Patricia Goehl, Munich, Federal Republic Germany, 1979; Master of Arts in Counseling and Psychology, U. San Francisco, 1990; Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy, U. San Francisco, 1994; Doctor of Education, U. San Francisco, 1998.

Career

Assistant artistic director, Opera Piccola, Oakland, California, 1990-1992; instructor African American culture and humanities, Mission Community College, Santa Clara, California instructor, Peralta Community College District, Oakland, since 1996; instructor, West Valley-Misson Community College District, Saratoga, California. Instructor East Bay Performing Art Center, Richmond, California, 1986, Chapman College, 1986, Mission Community College, Santa Clara, California, since 1997.

Achievements

• Ellen Eugenia Foster Randle has been listed as a noteworthy Opera and classical singer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Art commissioner City of Richmond, California. Member Music Teachers Association, International Black Writers and Artists Inc. (life member, local #5), National Council Negro Women, National Association Negro Musicians, California Arts Federation, California Association for Counseling and Development (member black caucus), National Black Child Development Institute, The California-Nebraskan Organisation, Inc., California Marital & Family Therapist Association (San Francisco chapter), Black Psychotherpist of San Francisco and East Bay Area, San Francisco Commonwealth Club, Gamma Phi Delta.

Interests

• Avocations: cooking, entertaining.

Connections

Married Ira James William, 1967 (divorced 1972). Married John Willis Randle, December 24, 1983.

Father:

Richard A.G. Foster

Mother:

Thelma Lousie Foster

Spouse:

John Willis Randle

Spouse:

Ira James William