About Diana McCullough

Returning to her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, following the completion of a 1979 Bowling Green State University undergraduate degree in Education and Music, Diana met her future husband, a research assistant in the Agricultural Economics Department. Mike and Diana married in the summer of 1981, and the friends who introduced them, Stephanie and Tom, married a couple of years later.

Mike and Diana soon bought and renovated a 1905 Victorian on Oakland Avenue, just north of campus, and Diana took courses toward her graduate degree while teaching at Duxberry Arts Alternative School. Her area of interest was the integration of the arts into the academic curriculum, primary at the elementary school level. Her master's in education was completed in 1987.

OSU’s Nisonger Center featured in McCullough’s lives when their daughter was born with Down Syndrome. This facility, dedicated to researching best ways to educate those with developmental delays, supplied the McCulloughs with important support, among other resources, during Morgan’s brief life, May 1984 to March 1985.

The early 1990’s found Diana back on west campus, not as a student or mother, but as a patient at the OSU Wexner Medical Center. Endocrinologist, Dr. Ernest Mazzaferri, provided Diana with excellent care and treatment of thyroid cancer.

Today, Diana walks into Sullivant Hall’s Studio 250, opens the studio blinds, and enjoys the Oval views, remembering early dates with Mike, when they walked its pathways. And then it's back to present day, and the students who await another Alexander Technique class.

Diana received teaching certification from Alexander Technique International, and was trained and mentored by Dale Beaver, Bob Lada, Robin Gilmore, Meade Andrews. She initially studied the Technique in the 1980’s with Barbara Conable.