Route 99 came through the Coachella Valley connecting parts east with Los Angeles roughly along the current route of Interstate And in the early s, State Highway bracketed the valley floor diagonally following the slope of the western mountains. The office where she worked fronted U. Having been run off the road by oncoming traffic and having witnessed too many similar accidents, she is credited with painting a white stripe down the middle of the road, which, by visually dividing the highway, dramatically decreased head-on collisions.
She is memorialized by a stretch of I through Indio named in her honor. When there is naming there is always the possibility of re-naming. The McCallum part of the name was eventually dropped going the way of all roosters. Reading Progress. October 28, — Shelved as: music. Post a comment ». Oct 29, AM. I always wondered if old Fred was connected to the blender biz. He was quite the Renaissance man, eh? I probably didn't emphasize it enough.
But whatever you think about his music, Fred was a rather exceptional person with ideas and plans all over the place. Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference. We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention. As a general rule we do not censor any content on the site.
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Before long they were chalking up new box office records even in such exalted entertainment palaces as those of the B. Keith circuit. The Pennsylvanians were on the way up. It is possible that the Waring ensemble would not have been heard beyond the perimeter of central Pennsylvania were it not for the balanced measure of creativity, humor and demanding discipline within the maestro himself.
From the beginning, Fred harbored a consuming zeal to "do things in a different and better manner. Offstage as well as on, Fred's humor comes through. Pointing to one of his dazzling young soloists as she approaches center stage, Fred may ask an audience, "How do you like that dress? I made it myself. This comes so close to being the truth that it is brilliant self-caricature, for he is gifted with an inventiveness that is by no means limited to music. If spouse Virginia yearns for a drapery carrier that, as it turns out, cannot be bought on the market, Fred will go down to his basement workshop and create a new device that meets her specifications.
Once the wife of a friend who was very ill, had a bad time concocting highly liquefied invalid food that the doctor had prescribed. Fred developed the Waring Blendor , which today will reduce any food to liquid puree and which has become a standard hit on the appliance market for all sorts of cooking and drink-making processes, as well as being a boon to medical research.
Fred is, by nature, kind and compassionate. If a friend has a splinter in his foot or something in his eye, Fred will take it out. He is such a calm and resourceful first-aider that his kitchen in the summer months at Shawnee Inn, world-famed golf center located at Shawnee-on-Delaware and purchased by Fred himself a fine golfer in , is often as busy as a hospital emergency room.
But let no Pennsylvanian mistake this gentleness for softness, or the sky will fall upon his foolish head. Waring's manner is patient and sympathetic in company rehearsals, but he detests indifference or sluggishness, and many a tear has been shed at Waring work sessions.
On the other hand, if a chastised performer has left a grueling session burning with homicidal thoughts toward the "ruthless" perfectionist conductor, such strained relations are shortlived, and people who have worked for Waring for any length of time freely acknowledge a respect and admiration that are virtually undying.
From this unswerving discipline, coupled with Waring's sincere desire to help talented young people to achieve their best, comes the perfection of sound and performance that has taken the Pennsylvanians beyond the palaver of such monikers as "celebrity" or "personality. It is fact in show business that anyone who has worked for Waring gets top priority as a potential performer for other quality producers.
Every summer upwards of eight hundred teachers, in quest of new ideas for their classes as well as college credits, visit the Fred Waring Music Workshop at Delaware Water Gap, Pa. With students, and with vacationers in search of musical enrichment, they live in a dormitory that was once a summer hotel, dine together, and spend eight hours a day learning Waring choral techniques and such elements of showmanship as program planning, staging and lighting.
Bob Banner, who was director of the Pennsylvanians' Sunday night television show for G. Nuns often come to Waring Workshop sessions to learn choral techniques to take back to parochial school classes. With nuns, as with everyone, Fred is blithely comfortable, and they seem to take his instruction or his chiding in stride. The idea for the Waring Workshop began years ago when music teachers and choir directors asked to be allowed to observe rehearsals.
They found his "tone syllable" method of rehearsing and performing revolutionary, his approach to production problems fresh and stimulating. Fred worked with Ennis Davis, a member of his staff, in planning the summer workshop, and a few miles from his own home at Shawnee-on-Delaware he found a large resort hotel, the Castle Inn, for sale.
This he bought, and with the help of his talented wife the building was refurbished and redecorated; its large auditorium was equipped with a full-fledged control room for recording. At the moment, thought is being given to extending the Workshop service, and the building at Delaware Water Gap may become a full-fledged music school. Fred Waring Jr. He was with the Pennsylvanians in , then joined the Navy prior to attending Indiana University for four years, and is back on tour with the Pennsylvanians this season.
Like his dad, he is a golf addict. Virginia Merritt Waring, third-generation Californian, met her "Pennsylvanian" when, under the stage name Virginia Morley, she appeared with Fred in concert with her pianist partner, Livingston Gerhart. While concert duo-pianists are not unusual today, Morley and Gerhart with their renditions of serious classical music were a novelty during their years of touring and recording.
Virginia met Gerhart in Europe while she was studying piano with the renowned Robert Casadesus. Casadesus and his wife had performed together, and he took particular interest in assisting the Morley-Gerhart venture.
Fred and Fred Jr. Paul, 19, is a flying enthusiast and is working and studying aeronautics at Bermuda Dunes Airport. Fred's daughter Dixie now Mrs. It was Malcolm, 7, youngest member of the Waring clan, who brought the family to the desert for the winter, his parents feeling it would be a possible cure for an asthmatic condition which he suffered in the east.
The sun has wrought its magic and, according to Virginia, the active family members have to step smartly to keep pace with the healthy youngster. Like big brother Fred, Malcolm seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps. While he loftily turned down piano lessons offered by his mother, he has developed a real yen for the trumpet. It happened accidentally… if such things do.
Malcolm watched with interest as Fred Jr. After the program, he went up to the bandstand and someone handed him an old, beat-up trumpet. Malcolm blew a dreadful note. He stayed on stage while the group played for dancing, waited for an occasional tongue-in-cheek cue from the leader, whereupon he would give forth with another shattering sound.
It was funny and fun, and everyone applauded. And so Malcolm is determined to learn to play the trumpet, but he has a problem: he must wait for the removal of braces from his teeth before he starts his music lessons at the desert's Palm Valley School.
Ethel Merman to the Broadway stage? Schweitzer to the world of humanities? All, including Fred, are giants in their fields; all are respected and revered for their contributions to making our world a happier place. The La Quinta location is being built at Jefferson St.
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