I was the first "O" in Wooster in the Wooster High School Senior Band in 1963.
Typical for a fat boy, I played the Sousaphone because most other instruments had to be paid for by your parents. I was being raised by my grandmother and she couldn't afford a trumpet. The school purchased sousaphones.
We were 110 members strong. I loved the band and our director Jack Emig. We did precision drills at football games and marched in parades.
It ended up making me an amateur musician for the rest of my life. I played a Fender acoustic guitar for about 10 years, played bass guitar for a few years in the Nineties, and played bongo drums for most of my life.
(And I still do.)
