"Friday
night was the party given by the GR for the Hi-Y. I was chairman of the committee in charge of
games and program. (I am just now hearing Louis Jordan singing "Is you Is,
Or Is You Ain't" accompanied by his "Tympany Five" on the Philco
Radio Hall of Fame.) I had counted on the swing band playing, Willis Beavers
playing "Three Moods" - a Tommy Dorsey solo, and Donald Hutchinson
playing a cornet solo, and perhaps a few other special numbers. But the North-East football game offered too
much competition. Some of the swing band
members wanted to go to the game and they wanted Willis to take his
pickup. Donald wouldn't play unless
Willis would. After planning several
numbers we ended up with Eugenia and Ine playing a Count Basie piece; Donna
Kneipp and Nita Mae Harvey playing "Begin the Beguine" on the piano
[etc.]"
--Letter
from my aunt, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Boulder, Colo., November 19,
1944.
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