In Memoriam

[shoelacedreamer]

One of the unfortunate results of being a conscious objector to Facebook & Facebook culture is that you miss important information on a semi-regular basis. Yesterday while driving up to Salem, Berg passed along the news that our high school choral director, David Pool, had passed away earlier this week. While this was not necessarily unexpected--

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[sweetgreens]

I only vaguely remember Mr. Pool since I never took one of his classes, but he graciously allowed me to run into the choral room and socialize with my super talented singing friends immediately before and after his classes, even though I had no business being there. None of the other music teachers liked it when I did that, so I thought of him as a nice person.

I more vividly remember the sounds of the songs he directed at graduation. They were so amazing and brought tears to my eyes. Were you one of the singers? There was a pretty big group up there, if I recall correctly.