Carolyn Airola was born in Dover, New Jersey. She holds an undergraduate degree from Wilkes University, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania; a graduate degree (Masters in Reading) from Western Illinois University, and attended the university of Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Carolyn has worked for the Muscatine Community Schools as an elementary teacher and also worked briefly for the Stanley Foundation. She has been involved with music all her life either singing in various choirs or playing and accompanying on the piano and sometimes organ.

Carolyn and husband Alfred, a retired high school teacher, have two children, Matthew and Elizabeth.

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