Jerry Galloway

Dr. Jerry Galloway has performed as a professional musician, drummer and vocalist since first starting in 1966. After performing in the 1960's he played 6 nights a week touring in the mid-1970's. He helped to start The Steamrollers in Vineland, NJ, in 1974 and toured for a brief time with the legendary Nashville Hall-of-Famer, Webb Pierce. He began studying martial arts in ChayonRyu in late 1970's while performing with the Stone Broke band weekly throughout the Houston, TX, area. He opened a martial school in the Houston area in the early 1980's as he completed his black belt. Founding his own system called Chun Tong (tradition), he moved the "Traditional Martial Arts" school to Indiana in 1989, he continued to advance his rank as a black belt and to win local, regional and national competitions. He eventually won 5 national medals including a gold medal in form competition in 2002 at the U.S. Nationals in Detroit, MI. He also served as the Vice President of the Indiana State Taekwondo Association from 1994-2002. He published the first textbook and reference manual for ChayonRyu forms in 1983 which eventually evolved to a 5th edition with national availability. Reaching the rank of Master of Taekwondo in June of 2000, he was inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame, January 12, 2002. His senior students continue to teach his Chun Tong system in New York, Virginia and Texas. Academically, he completed his college degree in Logic with a minor in Music from the University of Houston in 1980. He continued to perform in the Houston area while attending the South Texas College of Law. After that, he began his studies on the Doctor of Education program at the University of Houston with some of the earliest work on the use of technology in education. Having worked as a computer operator in the 1970's on the classic IBM-360, he helped start the term "computer literacy" and to develop the earliest work on conceptual development in computing for educators in the early 1980's. Dr. Galloway completed his Doctor of Education degree in 1987 at the University of Houston. He then became the coordinator of computer education and a professor of education for Indiana University Northwest where he gained a national reputation as a researcher and writer in educational computing. Dr. Galloway has since served the University of Texas and the College of Charleston as a professor of education. Before retirement, Dr. Galloway served on the Board of Directors for the National Social Science Association and as an editor for the International Journal of Educational Psychology. Indiana saw continued musical performances with various local bands. He joined Ernie Givens and the White Lies Band in the mid-1990's. They won Nashville's OCT "Indie" award as the best independent Country Band in the World in 1999 and again in 2000. By the late 2000's, Dr. Galloway had moved to performances in Texas and on the east coast. Since the mid 1990's he has developed an avocation as an amateur astronomer. He runs his own fully operational observatory and has served as the astronomy lecturer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines since 2001. He became a member of MENSA in 2006. In spite of his writing and teaching, public speaking and lecturing, his primary creative endeavor has continued to be music. As a solo vocal artist, he has published numerous CD's and continues to perform and record today.