Brief Biography

of Joe the Juggler

  • Born Joseph C. Welling in 1961, one of 10 siblings.
    A real family circus!

  • Won merit-based Archdiocesan Scholarship to St. Thomas Aquinas High School.
  • National Merit Scholar.
  • B.A. cum laude in English from UM-St. Louis.
  • Graduate work in English Literature & Language at the University of Chicago.
    “So for me, ‘quality’ is more than just a word—it’s a noun.”

  • Licensed and certified interpreter for the Deaf with over 8 years’ experience.
    Joe has yet to master simultaneous juggling and signing.

  • Certified by the State of Missouri as an Emergency Medical Technician.
    Not a bad credential for someone who throws around machetes, torches and such.

  • Joe is at least proficient in HTML, JavaScript, C/C++, several varieties of BASIC, JAVA, Perl, Flash and others.
    A professional juggler who does computer programming as a hobby.

  • Joe lived in Quito, Ecuador 1998-2000 and is now back in St. Louis.
    A little known fact: south of the Equator, you have to juggle the opposite direction.