I'm in the third day of cleaning out a storage practice room/sorting through some of the personal effects of Dr. Hoyle Carpenter, late and esteemed Professor of Music at Rowan/Glassboro SU/STC.
I started to keep an excel file of the work I'd done, only to be told not to--making too much work for yourself, I was told. So in the interim, I'm going to keep an informal record here, with the eventual intention of creating and publishing a paper or article.
So far--boxes and boxes of books. You can tell a lot about a man by what he holds on to.
Dr. Carpenter studied organ music; Portugal; languages; organ construction; architecture; early music. Dr. Carpenter taught music theory, history, and perhaps composition.
FRIDAY: It's the end of the week, and I've processed a couple dozen boxes of materiel from his collection. I'm feeling good about the amount I've done--and I hope the feeling is mutual. Time to bug out for a long weekend. Happy MLK Day, readers. I'll be taking my son back to college on Monday. Ordered his textbooks yesterday, not as big a hit as last time, which is good. Onward.
