Thanks for the nudge, Crowhugger:-) I just got off the phone wiht my dad. He said they had music everyday, in the afternoon. When he was in the 3rd & 4th grades, he was the only child, with a teacher who was about 19 yrs old and very musically trained. She was so busy teaching him to read music that they didn't have much time for what were considered children's songs. Off the top of his head, he could remember Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Spanish Cavalier, and the usual partiotic ones. I am sure I will get a call back, after he's had time to think on it.

He said those grades, before he was the only student, they had a couple of older boys who were packed off to reform school, much to his and his teacher's delight. The last day those boys were there, he and the teacher wound up behind the wood/coal stove throwing chunks of coal at them to keep them from beating them up! I asked if he remembered the teacher's name and where she came from or wound up. She married the fellow my grandad rented his lower ranch out to and became "Rose Young". Lived there for many years.

I am working on a new personal website. If i get time today, I will post a picture there of the schoolhouse he went to and put a link in here. I will also get out my grandma's (other side of the family)memoirs of teachng in Boulder and see what she had to say about music.

Thanks,

kat

Sheesh, Sandy, you and Caroline sure did get around!**BG**