[msb-alumni] Re: Band
- From: evelyn weckerly <weckerly@xxxxxxx>
- To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:34:45 -0400
Hi, Peggy and all,
I came to the school in December 1952 and graduated in 1959. I
have enjoyed all the talk about the band. I was in it my last
three years while continuing piano and pipe organ. Connie Grace
and I are in the same class and Gary Wood was a year behind me.
I know a few others on this list quite well and have met a few
others. But most of the people here I have not met in person.
I agree that we all have wonderful memories of our time at
school. Someone was asking about when Jack Chard came as faculty
member. He went to the school as a student, and I believe he
went to Michigan State in 1937. I don't know if he began his
teaching career when he graduated from Michigan State or if it
was a bit later. I know that the band was very much alive and
well when I became an MSB student. I had no idea that blind
people could do all the music making-band, orchestra and
chorus-until I came there.
Another reason I was not posting to this list is that I did not
know for a long time that I could send email through my ISP's
mail server while on an open wifi network.
Cordially,
Evelyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy" <pyates2011@xxxxxxxxx
To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 12:57:25 -0400
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
Evelyn,
We don't know one another, but I am wishing you a speedy recovery
just the
same. I hope all goes well for you in your long recovery period.
What year did you come to MSB and what year did you graduate?
I came to the school in the late fall of 1966 and graduated in
1970.
Peggy Yats and Ld Ginger
Class of 1970.
pyates2011@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcia Moses
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 10:53 AM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
Evelyn, it's so nice hearing from you,
I've wondered about you. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers
for a
smooth recovery.
Marcia
-----Original Message-----
From: evelyn weckerly
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 9:14 AM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
Hi, Gary and all,
Gary, When you and I were at MSB, Jesse Manley taught the piano
students that Mrs. Williams (later Hunn) could not take because
she had no room for them. Alicia Zaremba McKibben was one of
them when she came to MSB as a seventh grader. She and I were
roommates that year.
By the way, I have not sent anything to this list for about a
year. It's a long story and off topic for this subject. I will
simply say that I have been very seriously ill and am still in
recovery.
Regards,
Evelyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wood" <K8HLX@xxxxxxx
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Date sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 03:36:40 -0500
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
I think as far as I remember, piano tuning is the only thing that
Mr. Manley
taught.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy" <pyates2011@xxxxxxxxx
To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 10:12 PM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
Hi Bob,
Yah, now I remember. He did teach piano tuning because Larry
Yanchus took
that from him and he also taught chair caning. I had no idea
that he also
taught band at one time. Must have been before Jack Chard
started
teaching.
Peggy Yats and Ld Ginger
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Spear
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 10:34 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
He taught piano tuning. I didn't know he taught anything else.
-----Original Message-----
From: msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:msb-alumni-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peggy
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 5:40 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
Hi Steve,
I didn't know that Jessie Manley taught band. I remember him
teaching
chair
caning but that was all I knew he taught at the time.
Peggy and Ld Ginger
Class of 1970.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 1:31 PM
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Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Band
I started playing piano, I thought it was a mandatory thing, and
I
couldn't
wait to get out after a year. I had Agnes Horton as my teacher.
When I
switched to snare, Jesse Manley taught me the rudimentals--drum
rolls,
paradiddles, etc. I can still hear his voice in my mind "Beat,
Beat,
Bounce-it".
In my first year in band, they had Park Herron and Milton
Jackson as snare
drummers, so I played the bass drum. Kathy Barkley was on
timpany and
glock
and spiel; Nancy Denny was on cymbals. I learned all the
percussion
antics
from Park Herron, and we certainly carried it all forward in the
following
years. Park used to make runs to Fabs during rehearsals, just
like Mark
Tonkins did a couple years later.
Because I was small-framed then, I did not play bass drum when
we marched.
I had to pretend to play the cornet and that was pretty
embarrassing.
Chard
didn't want me to miss marching in various events including the
Holland
Tulip Festival. I don't remember who else from my class was in
the band
that year, other than I think Terry Posont and I think his
brother Larry
was
there then as well. I know there were over thirty and I think
at least
three trombonists.
I think during 1967 I may have played snare drum at one of the
band
performances, unbeknownst to Jack Chard. Park switched with me
and he
played bass drum. God, I laugh at the stuff we used to mostly
get away
with
then.
I remember a couple years later when Chard was holding us over
to get some
extra practice before the festivals. Terry Posont put his
trombone away
and
left. I figured I would do. I quietly put the snare drum in
its case,
put
my coat on and just as I was ready to walk out the backstage
door, old
Jack
caught my by my coat collar. I did get in some trouble at home
for that
stunt.
Steve
Class of '72
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