My name is Greg Cody, actually Gregory, but everybody knows me as Greg. Uh, 72, 73, and 74. I was not a graduate. Yeah. Buh-But I'm alumni, how's that? Well music was always uh, thing that I loved in in high school and growing up and so, when I came to Linfield I immediately joined the choir and took part in that, and also the jazz choir at the time. The neatest thing when, in jazz choir was is, when we did our performances you, I always felt it wasn't appropriate that I flirt with who I was singing next, I would grab some little lad- little old lady outin the area and just sing to her. You know? And you could just see her eyes just melt away! And it just made the whole concert for them, when you're, when you're performing to them.

Umm but one of the guys that was really influential in my experience of Linfield was the choir director. Umm I felt like all of a sudden I had a friend, from the get-go. And that was the choir director Marion Van Dyke. Umm, he was always there look, ready to listen to you, he was always there inspiring, always happy to see you. Umm he just loved everybody in the choir and the whole school. We had the choir rehearsals, and it, it was like twice a week, uh, over in Riley. Uhh, no! Renshaw, over in Renshaw. Umm, and we'd go in there, and there was a group of about 30, 40 of us, and we worked on several hard pieces. Umm I can't for the life of you tell you any of the pieces we worked on to now. Butuhhe, you know, talk me a lot about loving music and loving choral pieces while I was there.