The easiest way to identify these people is to list them in some semblance of a chronology; these are the people mentioned in the other pages, and how they fit in that story.  Many of them are mentioned as appropriate in the histories before 2011, and in 2011, 2012, and 2013, and some also in connection with stories behind various songs, as listed on the primary resource page.

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• Mark Joseph Young, principal of Collision and the band that became it, recently bass guitarist, once switching between that, flute, keyboards, and guitar, always vocalist and director, has his own page.
• Jay Fedigan vanished from Mark's world so long ago we could not begin to guess where he might be now, but when Mark was in seventh grade their mothers introduced them.  They lived around the corner from each other, were both new to the area, both interested in music, both rather ignored by their peers, and within a month of each other in age.  Mark had tried writing "music" before I met him, but Jay wrote "songs", and working with him Mark saw how he did it and so learned to do it also.  No claim is made that any of the songs they wrote back then were particularly good, but it was the critical turning point in Mark's understanding of how to compose, how to create lyrics, how to put together songs.  Mark is still not sure that can be taught in the sense of explained in a way that others could learn, but has always felt that this apprenticing was the best approach.
• Jeffrey Robert Zurheide never heard of Collision, but his impact on it cannot be discounted.  He was lead guitarist and bottom vocal (of five) in Mark's band The Last Psalm, back in the early 70's, and invited Mark to play bass and sometimes provide backup vocals in Jacob's Well and Aurora, also in those years, and did numerous tandom appearances with him, including opening for Barry McGuire at Gordon College's March Thaw in 1977.  He is on the list of Mark's best friends over the years, and was best man at his wedding.  He died a few years ago, a cancer victim, after having served as a pastor for many years.  He is also among the persons having the greatest impact on Mark's musical career, because after he left The Last Psalm he decided that Mark should never sing lead in a band and should never be the director of a band, and took it upon himself to crush any lack of humility on Mark's part that might have led him to do either of those things.  It made it very difficult for Mark to promote himself--something at which he was never very good anyway--and has been an obstacle at every turn.  It also means Mark has avoided being the only singer in any band, and has made a point of sharing solos with other vocalists as much as possible.
• David D. Oldham was sound engineer and occasional vocalist in the last days of The Last Psalm, and bass guitarist in TerraNova.  Being one of Mark's best friends, he collaborated with him on at least one song and on some other musical decisions and was a sounding board and contributor in many of the discussions that led to the design of teaching band Cardiac Output.
• John David Mastick has an interesting relationship with the band as the drummer who never comes.  He played in The Last Psalm back in the 1970s, and in Jacob's Well around the same time, and then in the early aughts discovered that Mark was part of a new band, by that time Collision.  He immediately wanted to join.  Mark objected that he lived too far from where we are, and he insisted that it was not a problem for him.  Mark explained that we had already promised the position of drummer to someone else (Kevin Rabago, who never got as far as a rehearsal), and he suggested that we use two drummers.  Mark liked the idea and said yes--but then John was never able to make the trip.  Sometimes it was a communications problem, that we could not reach him to tell him when and where.  Once when the band gathered to meet with him at a diner he was abruptly hospitalized and couldn't get word to us.  It was so confusing that when we talked with Nick we made it clear that John was already one of our drummers but was comfortable with the idea of having two, and Nick agreed.  So officially he is our second drummer, even though he has never yet played with us.  He does, however, have our Roland SPD-11 drum synthesizer, so we're still hoping he'll make it, or else return our equipment.
• Janet B. Young is often mentioned because she is Mark's wife.  She is also co-author of several songs, some of which are currently listed on our repertoire (Holocaust and Walkin' In the Woods), and some of which we might yet do.
• Conrad Gempf was a musician at Gordon College whose style inspired Mark to write a couple of fast and highly rhythmic songs, Free and probably Song of Joy.
• Robert Leo Weston was a friend of Mark and Janet briefly in the 80s, before he left for the first Iraq War.  He co-wrote a couple songs which were excellent (Holocaust and Walkin' In the Woods), and so is mentioned in connection with them.
• Barbara Migliore was a vocalist in the band TerraNova, in the mid 1980s; her involvement then influenced vocal arrangements which continued to be used later.
• Tyler Chroniger is credited as co-founder of the band.  Sometime in the early aughts he was leading a midweek evening worship time for a local youth group, and invited Mark to support him on bass guitar.  Eventually we started expanding, adding drums and another vocalist.  By the time the worship time was discontinued we had begun to morph into a band with a broader vision, under the name 7dB.  He played rhythm guitar on an amplifed acoustic and sang most of the lead vocals, and our repertoire included several songs written by him.  When he decided he no longer wanted to be part of a band, he said we could continue doing his songs, although we ultimately retained only one that was exclusively his work (Stand Up) and another of which he was co-author (Still Small Voice).
• Travis Burlingame was the drummer when we transitioned from a nameless group of musicians leading worship to the band 7dB.  He was part of that church and a friend of Tyler, and so played when and where Tyler asked, but left when he did.
• Becky Patterson was for a while vocalist in the praise band that transitioned from a nameless group of musicians leading worship to the band 7dB.  She left for college before the band began expanding into other Christian genres.
• Jessica Chroniger was female vocalist when 7dB was at its best.  Being Tyler's little sister, though, she dropped out of the band when he did, then left for college shortly thereafter.
• Evan Young is fourth of Mark's five sons, and has an excellent ear for music.  He signed on as sound engineer for 7dB and helped intermittently in that area when we became Collision.  He still gives advice from time to time.
• Eric Kyle Baxter, Jr., original member of Collision when it transitioned from 7dB and its long-time lead guitarist, hoping to add vocals to his credentials, has his own page.
• Adam Young is fifth of Mark's five sons, and was learning to play bass guitar when 7dB was transitioning to Collision.  He played with us briefly when Brittany was vocalist, but life took him in too many other directions and he gave up the band and the instrument.
• Kevin Rabago was boyfriend to one of Kyle's sisters, and a drummer who took an interest in playing with us, but when the relationship ended our ability to contact him went with it, and we never managed to arrange a rehearsal to hear him play.
• Brittany Boscola joined Collision not long after it had made the transition from 7dB, as vocalist and rhythm guitarist, usually on an electrified acoustic.  During that time we had two vocalists and did quite a few duets mixed with solos.  After a couple years and one concert, her life got too busy and she left.
• Jonathan Maness, keyboard player, vocalist, and to a significant degree the band's manager for several years, has his own page.
• Nicholas "Nick" Rhoades, drummer in 2011 and 2012, has his own page.
• Michael "Mike" Brantley, sound engineer and perhaps chief fan, has his own page.
• Tony Mascara is the studio owner and engineer of the Collision Of Worlds EP.
• Sara DeWitt, 2013 rhythm guitar and vocalist, has her own page.
• Daniel Payne, 2013 drummer, has his own page.