{"id":41965,"date":"2014-08-14T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=41965"},"modified":"2014-08-14T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:46:02","slug":"letters-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/letters-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Frank Jilka, Bill Swears and Kurt Becker<!--more--><br \/>\nAfter finally checking my e-mail yesterday, I was saddened to read the e-mail that notified me that our beloved Band Teacher, Mr. Frank Jilka, age 90, had passed away peacefully on Friday morning.<br \/>\nHe made it to a family reunion just a short time ago and was still playing his trombone.<br \/>\nI have kept in touch with him through snail mail, and he always held a special place in my heart.<br \/>\nWe all felt that he would always be the best Director that you could ever want and no one can surpass. Witty, stern with a warm smile, band was his life.<br \/>\nOur times at Interlochen Music Camp were one of our great times that we all have not forgotten.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Rest in Peace, Frank.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nMaralyn Fink Woodbury<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To piggy back on Maralyn\u2019s sad news, Bill Swears who has a first year teacher when the Class of 1959 were seniors, passed Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was only 77.<br \/>\nAfter a successful career as a business education teacher, he became principal of St. Johns High School for many years.<br \/>\nSally Boron<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Reader recalls Kurt Becker<br \/>\nSaddened to read of Kurt Becker\u2019s passing. Many fond memories of Kurt and the Becker family from my childhood. Enjoyed the old Rotary Club photo. Many fine men from my boyhood in St. Johns.<br \/>\nOf course my Father and Grandfather, Jim and Joe Matthews, Glenn Osgood, Dr. Kraft, Al Dean, Leo Corkin, Bill Barber and Le Dewitt. And of course my childhood and still my favorite dentist, Dr Oatley, who fixed my front tooth that I broke diving into the shallow end of the park pool. I think it was a better time.<br \/>\nTodd J. Matthews<br \/>\nFlagstaff, AZ<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14aug\/beckergroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/14aug\/beckergroup2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See a larger image<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Frank Jilka, Bill Swears and Kurt Becker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}