Benjamin Trimble
Memoirs
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Introduction
1941 Russellville, Kentucky
* My Birth
1943 Atlanta, Georgia
*My
Life in West End Atlanta
1952 Decatur, Georgia
*Druid
Hills and Decatur High Schools
*My
Life with the Violin
1959 Berkeley, California
*Rostropovich
Comes to Berkeley
*My
Car Accident
*Brett
Weston Visit
*Two
Memorable Music Department Performance Classes
*A 1960 Noon Concert
1960 West Lafayette, Indiana
*Chamber Music with
Friends
*Graduate
Study at Purdue University
*My
Marriage to Joanne
*My
Interest in Birds
*A
Trip Around rhe US
*Isle
Royale Backpacking Trip
1965 Manhattan, New
York City
*My Early Teaching Years
*String
Quartets with my Friends
*Living
on the Lower Eastside Manhattan in the 60s
*An
Incredible Christmas Bird Count
*Jury
Duty in Manhattan
*A
1967 Birding Trip to the Caribbean
1968 Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
*Graduate Work at The University
of Pennsylvania (In process)
1972 Glassboro, New Jersey
*My
Glassboro State College Teaching Years
*The
Orchestra Society of Philadelphia
*The Philadelphia Eagles
*My Trip to the Galapagos
Islands
*Mo
nt Blanc Ascent
*
Climbing
Hasan Dagi in Turkey
*Marvin
Creamer
1982 Camden, New Jersey
*My
Work at RCA Government
Systems Division
*I
Become a Pilot
1983 IBM (Kingston, New York and Austin, Texas)
*My Life at IBM
*My Friends in Austin (In process)
*My
Flights to the Bahamas
*A
Flight to Newfoundland,Canada and St. Pierre, France
*Wildlife
at my Austin Texas Home
*Two
Flights to Belize and Guatemala
*A
Flight to Alaska
2000 Retirement
*A Trip to Mainland
China
*My
Life with Penny