[Dixielandjazz] Short Bio

[Charlie Hooks]

on 6/23/03 9:18 PM, Bill Horton at horton4jaz at earthlink.net wrote:

I managed to get mechanical engineering degrees at Ohio State Univ. and
Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon Institute.)

    Well, I knew I liked you, and now I know why:  you're like Pee Wee Hunt,
engineering at Ohio State (Pee Wee in 1925) and you ain't stupid!  Like:

   " late-night broadcasts of Chic Webb and Ella,
back in high school and, despite not reading a note, formed a small (but
awful) dance band."

   Awful, schmawful: at least you started one and for all the right reasons!
More than most of us did, for any reasons at all.  And even more so:

   "In my spare time my wife and I (as a Lay Reader) started an
Episcopal mission in La Mirada, CA, now a parish with a nice building, and
wrote a political commentary column."

   God bless, Bill, and please continue!  I left your church for the Romans
a few years ago, many reasons why, quite behind Newman; but I will always
love Episcopalians.  And I pray for your continuance.  Good people!  Can I
still find your political commentary column?   If not, can you supply me
with your outlines?

admiringly,

Charlie