Tag: Memoir
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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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My High School Journey Begins – Memoir Continued
My High School Journey Begins – 1962 – Memoir Continued Admiral King High School in Lorain OH. It was brand new and opened the year before I started. So ours would be the 2nd class to graduate, completing all four years there, the class of 1966. I took Algebra in summer school so that I…
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Jr High Orchestra and Choir – Memoir Continued
Jr. High Orchestra and Choir Jr High was also my introduction to Orchestra and Choir. I don’t remember who the Orchestra director was, but the Choir director was Mr. Tully. I was a middling violin player and, for those two years, had a crush on the lead violinist, Antoinette Antinopolis. But nothing ever came of…
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Jr High School Years – Memoir Continued
Jr High School Years Each school year, Boy Scout and Girl Scout representatives would visit the schools and encourage the students to join. That was also true in elementary school. Dad gave us all a choice. We could join Scouts or the YMCA. He highly recommended the Y, explaining that he could get a family…
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