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As
I read about the forthcoming
Memorial Day Service to be held
at the Cumberland Cemetery, I am
reminded of Memorial Day, 1958,
fifty one years ago, when I was
a member of the Cumberland High
School Band directed by Robert
Bird. My father, Clyde Henderson
Larrick, was principal and
executive head of the Cumberland
Spencer School District, about
to move to a similar position at
Old Washington while the family
moved that summer to Cambridge.
I
was a freshman at Cumberland
High School in 1957-58, active
in music and sports in addition
to concentration upon academics.
As a trumpet player in the high
school band, Mr. Bird
volunteered me to play "Taps" on
Memorial Day at the Cumberland
Cemetery that May.
I
was assigned second bugle part,
and played the echo a bit over
the hill behind an outdoor
toilet. It is one of my
fascinating memories of the time
I spent in Cumberland, Ohio.
This April, 2009, I celebrated
my first piano lesson in
Cumberland in April, 1949, sixty
years ago, with Miss Eula Carr,
a cook at Cumberland Elementary
School who taught piano lessons,
too. She was very good.
In
April, 2009, I played piano at
Washington Service Learning
Center in Stevens Point,
Wisconsin.
Geary Larrick
Geary Henderson Larrick, Doctor
of Musical Arts
Assistant Professor of Music,
Retired
University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point
800 Sommers Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481-2248 USA
Telephone (715) 341-4367 |
