Ken Fahsbender

This is Ken Fahsbender\u27s Senior Class photo from the 1949 Wesleyana. Dr. Fahsbender\u27s oral history is available at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oral_hist/69/https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhistory_gallery/1127/thumbnail.jp

Ken Fahsbender

Dr. Fahsbender submitted this scanned copy of a recent photograph to go along with his oral history interview which is available at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oral_hist/69https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhistory_gallery/1126/thumbnail.jp

Ken Fahsbender

Ken Fahsbender is a member of Phi Mu Alpha. He majored in music and two years after graduation he joined the Army and the Ft. Leonard Wood Band. Later he pursued a Master\u27s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PhD from Stanford. He retired from teaching in the California school system. During this interview he recalls the benefits of being in a fraternity talks about being in a men\u27s choral group, intramural and extramural sports, and competing in track. He also remembers interacting with Coach Jack Horenberger, Lee Short, and Lloyd Pfautsch. He speaks of the value he still finds from the courses outside of his music requirements

Ken Fahsbender and Phi Mu Alpha members in 1945

Dr. Fahsbender donated a printed copy of this image to the University Archives, which was scanned to go along with his oral history interview which is available at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oral_hist/69 Ken Fahsbender, shown here as a 17 year old Freshman, is on the top row right. John Fierro \u2749 is the far left of the top row. The next two are unknown. Next is (in his own words) Fahsbender\u27s very tall roommate that year Alan Crawford \u2749. He played oboes and tenor sax in Fahsbender’s “Kenny Eugene Orchestra.” On the bottom, starting on the left are Sebastiano Conte \u2749 (from New York), a string bass major who also played in the Kenny Eugene Orchestra; Jack Schuler \u2749, clarinet (from Pennsylvania); John Kinnison \u2746, saxophone; unknown; and John Leighty \u2749. If you have information on the unidentified individuals shown here, please send it to [email protected]://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oralhistory_gallery/1128/thumbnail.jp