Month: August 2014

Poetry in Motion

Who is she? When and where was she? What was the tune? Was this a contest? We may never know, but certainly she is lovely and her uniform does her perfect justice.

Jack Camp, piper, 6th Army Pipe Band

I played for Jack’s celebration of life recently. Several generations of his family and many friends attended to pay tribute and express their love. He was very dear to his family and it was a sentimental day. Jack’s golfing friends were there and spoke of him with great fondness. Jack was stationed at the Presidio… Read more »

Harriet “Hap” Leman, May 23, 1926 – July 23, 2014

Hap was a pioneering spirit. She learned to fly WWII trainers hoping to be a WASP, one of the women who flew stateside. After the war, she toured Scotland on a bicycle, staying at youth hostels. My own mother did the same thing at about the same time. These women may very well have met…. Read more »