The James Logan Courier

By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

Even now, as I type this article, I can hear the sounds of mallets colliding with drumheads in a frenetic craze as percussionists from all over the nations’ west coast prepare for competition at the James Logan parking lot. Just why, a skeptical person might ask, are you hearing these things, and why are they even there?

Saturday, March 15, 2008 is the day of the percussion WGI finals this year, and as in previous years, it has been held in the Logan campus. While some groups may be in the Pavilion performing, others are out in the parking lot and even in the basketball courts, warming up for their performances. It began bright and early in the morning before I woke up at 9:00, and it’s still going on, probably, until midnight. As I live none too far from the campus, even with all the doors and windows shut tight and a television droning in the room next door, I can hear the occasional boom-boom-boom, and if I listen carefully, even the repetitive clank of the metronome keeping time.

Musically Minded by Kimberly Low

From The Courier Comics archives:

From wikipedia:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (1750-03-16, Hanover – 1848-01-09) was a German-born English astronomer, the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets and in particular the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.

Caroline was born in Hanover to Isaac Herschel and Anna Ilse Moritzen of Hanover. Isaac led a musical family, and William, twelve years Caroline's senior, became an army oboist in his teens. After seeing combat and deciding on a new career, William decided to leave for England, moving there in 1766 at the age of nineteen. Upon Isaac's death in 1767 Caroline was left working in the family kitchen, and when an invitation to join William arrived she moved to join him in 1772.

Read more about Caroline Lucretia Herschel, free from The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

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