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Billie Sue Parry ’69 retired from 28 years of sales with Xerox Corp. �ve
years ago. Since then she has been working in part-time jobs just for
the fun of it. Most recently, she is clerk of her church and secretary for
institutional religious services for inmates in county jails.
Harriet McCleary ’70 is teaching private voice at St. Olaf College and
at home. McCleary is director of Cathedral Choristers and a member of
Cathedral Choir at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis.
For Sherrie McDonald Brady ’73 retirement was a struggle at �rst;
she couldn’t seem to �nd any direction. Lately, however, she has found
great enjoyment playing in the pit orchestra for local musicals, leading
the handbell choir at church and doing a little music arranging. And,
yes, there is a cruise to the southern Caribbean on the horizon.
Steve Fuhrmann ’73 is married to Lola Allbright, ’73 TCU graduate
from Harris College of Nursing. He does occasional cello playing these
days, typically at church, and anticipates retiring from a career in
human resources management at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2011
and increased music involvement.
Kelly Webb-Ferebee ’73 published a Halloween songbook and
CD for children and performed her songs Oct. 28, 2010, at the TCU
Barnes & Noble bookstore. She also performed at Austin’s bookstore
BookPeople, and she had more than 100 children present. It was
amazing! Webb-Ferebee wrote the songs while teaching music in a
Montessori school in the ’80s. They are terri�c songs for preschool and
elementary music teachers to use in their classrooms.
Carol Cappa ’74 has been working for American Airlines and then Sabre
Holdings for many years at the software help desk. In 2005 she was laid o�
when all the call centers for Sabre were moved to South America. Making
lemonade out of lemons, she decided to return to school and, in 2008,
graduated with a degree in respiratory care. For the past three years she
has been working as a respiratory therapist at the VA Hospital in Dallas.
This fall, Carol began her 12th season as a member of the Dallas Symphony
Chorus, under the direction of the new chorus director, Josh Haberman.
The chorus had a wonderful season last year under the direction of Jaap
Van Zweden and, in May, traveled to New York City to participate in a
new orchestra festival held at Carnegie Hall. The chorus and orchestra
performed a commissioned work called “August 4, 1964,” composed by
John Stucky. Carol looks forward to hearing from her classmates and
friends at TCU via email (ccap0925@sbcglobal.net) or on Facebook.
William Collins ’74 is now operating the Sherman Jazz Museum in
Sherman, Texas. Its website is shermanjazzmuseum.com. He retired in
2006 from 30 years of freelance work in the D/FW area, mainly as a pit
musician playing the touring Broadway shows out of New York.
James R. Horne ’75 is happily married with two beautiful girls and
employed at the best company in the world. [Editor’s note: James
works at Full Sail University.] He loves the job and his life.
Daryll Kaire ’75 has been working with Mr. E’s Music the past six years
after retiring from 30 years of teaching. He traveled this year to the
Rose Bowl. Kaire and his wife also went to the TCU Band’s performance
at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Diane Davenport Schutz ’75 is now director of a senior citizens
community choir and a member of the adjunct faculty at New Mexico
State University. She is also president of the New Mexico American
Choral Directors Association. She would love to hear from others from
the class of 1975. Go Frogs!
Lew Williams ’75 is in his 32nd year as sta� organist for Organ Stop
Pizza in Mesa, Ariz. The organ there is the largest theater pipe organ
in public in the world, with some four manuals and 78 ranks: www.
organstoppizza.com. Williams was one of �ve organists who played
a public organ concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York in August
2008. The concert, organized by Col. Jack Moelmann, was the �rst one
when the organ had been heard in concert since 1970. In October
2010, Williams performed �ve theater organ concerts in Germany,
including at the North German Radio Station in Hamburg.
V. Laura Bozeman ’78 was nominated for Outstanding Precollegiate
Teacher of the Year for 2010 by the East Texas Music Teachers
Association. ETMTA was nominated for Best of State by Texas Music
Teachers Association for 2010. Bozeman was an adjunct instructor
in the Department of Music and Dance at Tyler Junior College and
taught music appreciation, applied piano lessons and class piano. She
also taught for the Choir School of East Texas and at the University
of Texas at Tyler as a part-time lecturer. Before moving to East Texas,
Laura taught piano at Our Lady of Victory School in Fort Worth, the
TCU Piano Preparatory School, and the Piano Project at the University
of Texas at Austin. She was also the host of an evening program of
classical music on KTCU-FM. Her piano recitals included a program of
modern music, played at the Caravan of Dreams Theater in downtown
Fort Worth. Continuing studies have included the TCU/Cliburn Piano
Institute and attending two of the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences
as an adjudicator. Her private students include high school seniors who
have won �rst place in UIL state auditions for the Texas Association of
Private and Parochial Schools and adults who are advanced amateurs.
Pianist John Salmon ’78
had a busy spring with
concert tours in China
and Spain; concerts with
his jazz trio in Colorado,
Virginia and Kentucky; and
a performance of two of
William Bolcom’s “12 New
Etudes” at the American
Liszt Society festival in
Athens, Ga. His latest CD,
Salmon Is a Jumpin’, released