Winter is at right.
Pa. Transfixed by the swing band's drummer, the boy moved in behind the man for a closer look. Although I didn't think of music as a life-path until a year after I graduated from Northwestern, a seed was planted in my subconscious that night that grew into my lifelong aspiration to create music of my own that might awaken in people the same good feeling I sensed at that dance. That night at the Shriners dance, I think I learned that music had the power to bring out the nobler side of the human spirit. And that idea has guided me ever since. Clearly, this new milestone represents quite a journey from a childhood reverie at a Shriners dance.