Tag: history
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The Threepenny Opera – Memoir Continued
The Threepenny Opera (a band name that I used off and on for several years) Guy and I started singing folk music together. I also had met a young woman at the Hut, a bar in the front part of the Lorain Roller Rink on Route 6 out near Beaver Park. Her name was Jane…
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Jeff D. and The Rights of Spring – Memoir Continued
I am going to be jumping around a bit in the timeline here to make the story a little more coherent. I’ll get back to the Community College part of the story shorty, or at least the highlights. Jeff D. and the Rights of Spring I worked part of the summer of ‘68 for a…
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IDPI – Memoir Continued
IDPI – International Data Processing Institute After graduation, I applied to and was accepted to IDPI on Cleveland’s near east side downtown. I drove there at first in the ‘61 Dodge Dad had gifted me for graduating high school. It was clean, had no rust, and ran well. Had a 3 speed shifter on the…
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Post High School Graduation – Memoir Continued
Post High School Graduation Much of the following was happening simultaneously or in close proximity, even though I’ve separated them as best I can remember of the sequence of events to make them a little easier to write about. Working With Dad I quit Sandy’s shortly after graduation. I didn’t like the politics of the…
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Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta – Memoir Continued
Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta, Spring 1966 The Unsinkable Molly Brown was the choice of our choir director and the English department’s drama coach. In previous years, I had played in the ensemble put together to be the pit-orchestra for our musicals. But this year, Guy and I both tried…
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Senior Year Part 2 – Advanced Writing – Recruiters – Memoir Continued
Advanced Writing Class – Miltary Recruiters – Senior Year I can’t remember our teacher’s name, but he had the misfortune to look like a cross between Ichabod Crane and the Papa-oom-mow-mow Man of Goulardie’s 60’s TV show fame. He was a very good teacher and got me started in writing poetry, though none of it…
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Senior Year – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
1965-66 – Senior Year – Part 1 – Memoir Continued Driving to School: Teddy started high school in ‘65. So, Dad bought a ‘58 brown, two-door Ford Fairlane for me to drive Guy, Teddy, and I back and forth to school. It was not in good shape, and the transmission gave out before my graduation.…
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Junior Year Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Junior Year Part 2 – Memoir Continued Toward the end of the school year, I tried out with the choir director, Mr. Meyer for my senior year. I also brought in and sang for him, To the Evening Star from Tannhauser by Wagner, which I sang at the City Auditions after Mr. Meyer approved and…
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1964-65 – Junior Year Part 1 – Memoir Continued
1964-65 – Junior Year Part 1 – Memoir Continued Orchestra rehearsal, first period: Seating was being assigned for each of the orchestra’s sections. In the violin section, we were moving up the seniority chain, and the first and second chairs were up for grabs. Both Guy and I thought we’d be sitting one and two.…
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Sophomore Year – Memoir Continued
1963-64 – Sophomore – Memoir Conrtinued Guy started his freshman year as I started my sophomore. We were both in the first period orchestra rehearsal first violin section. I sat 3rd chair violin, and he sat 5th, with Ellen Zahoric sitting 4h, right next to me, sharing a music stand. She was the city prosecutor’s…
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