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Subject: Re: Message from Big Daddy

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Juli Perry Briggs

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Date Posted: 08:54:50 03/25/03 Tue
In reply to: Charles Kuentz 's message, "Message from Big Daddy" on 03:38:03 02/22/03 Sat

Mr. K, loved you then, love you now. Guess for me it all started with my mom and dad stumbling across you and Judy at a Pat Neff band concert when Ray and I were both 8th graders... suddenly, I learned that you and dad had gone to Jeff together and your first band job and his first church had been in Rocksprings, TX and that you two couples had hung around together "in the early days." Your beloved Ray was truly my oldest friend in the universe... after all, we shared a playpen together! I was so proud of him when I saw what a great family man he had become at the point of our 1977 reunion. God rest his soul.

I'd venture to guess that it wasn't just everyone in Stage Band that heard you chide me occasionally with, "ok, little girl, I used to change your diapers," it was the whole damn crew!

Please stay well and know that I wouldn't even want to bother defining who I am without tossing a lot of the credit to the glorious sense of family I experienced being around you Kuentzes. Thanks so much for the intense musicality you instilled in all of us, too. Still wish NISD had been able to have an orchestra program in place back in those early days, but we made do, didn't we?????? If you ever drop into the band hall, please give Bertha a pat on the back for me.

Hugs,
Juli

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Re: Message from Big Daddy

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Cecillia Dohrn Rivas
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Date Posted: 20:02:53 03/25/03 Tue

Mr. K,

It was great to read your message. The longer, the better! I am filled with emotion as I reflect on my time with the Ram Band. I remember wanting to quit when I was in Middle School because I wasn't enjoying my instrument (clarinet). However, I owe my mother a debt of gratitude for making me stick with it until I went to High School. Fortunately for me I did persevere and was able to have the awesome privilege of learning what it was like to be a part of a team that was the Pride of their school and city.

Your loving leadership gave me the desire to be my best and to get up early every morning ready to march. Marching is the only form of exercise that I have ever enjoyed, still to this day! Surely the time that I spent in Band and all of the numerous fund-raising events, etc... were some of the very best of my life. Thank you so very much for all of the effort that you put into molding us and instilling in us the importance of being our very best.

Although I did not pursue the clarinet after JMHS, I do still play the piano and keyboard and am fully involved in church music. I have 4 children, and the oldest 2 both play the violin. My husband went to H.S. in El Paso and had a very similar band experience to mine, so we are hoping our children will also get to participate in a fantastic band/orchestra. Our daughter is in the Nashville Repertory Symphony Orchestra and will be starting High School next year at the magnet school which focuses on the arts, Nashville School of the Arts. We are excited for her opportunity. She has had some wonderful mentors thus far.

Please know that you were my very favorite teacher and still hold a special place in my heart. I am really looking forward to seeing you again. It's great to have this opportunity to come together.

Hugs from "Seniors Try More Harder"!!

Cecillia

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