My Bio and My Atchison

Good day to you, my name is Justin Manion and I'm a junior at Benedictine College. I'm a business major with concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Management, and Marketing and a minor in Music. I'm originally from St. Louis, Missouri and have enjoyed my time in Atchison. I've obviously spent most of my time on Benedictine's campus, but I've also held jobs all around the area. From being a waiter at Berg's at Pineview to working at Raven Rock Miniature Golf Course to rentals and lift attendant at Snow Creek to waiter at Cedar Ridge to being a General Maintenance and Repair Technician at the Atchison Juvenile Correctional Facility to teaching guitar lessons to running my own recording studio, I've been fortunate to meet many wonderful people and to call this place home.

The photo to the left is a picture taken from "Abbey Land," a section of land owned by the Abbey which lies north of the college's campus. This is an area where students can explore and spend time relaxing in nature, a place where my friends and I have had some memorable experiences. As well, the Missouri River can be seen in this picture.

Continuing with the trend of the Missouri River, I've spent quite a bit of time on and around the river fishing. My favorite type of fishing is catfishing, and as you can see in the picture to the right, I've had a decent amount of luck. This is certainly one of my favorite parts of Atchison, the close proximity to such great catfishing holes! In this picture you can also see the Amelia Earhart Bridge, the most used portal in and out of our beloved Atchison!

My final picture describing my Atchison experience is a picture of Durell Anthony, a graduate of Benedictine and an Atchison native, in my recording studio. I greatly enjoy music, especially the production aspect of it, so I decided to start my own studio where I can teach myself to produce and record music in a somewhat professional manner. I've spent quite a considerable amount of time in the room you see to the left, a practice room in Bishop Fink Hall where the portable studio makes its home. If you'd like to get a taste of some of the music that has been recorded in this studio, visit www.myspace.com/glorybluemusic (my former band) or www.myspace.com/durellanthony (a good friend of mine who can seriously sing).

Thank you for following this blog and for reading my portion. I believe this class and project of Leadership Atchison 2009 is really going to be a great thing...let's make something great happen!

---Justin Manion