Michael Maxwell:  

School What can I say other than Band was my passion. For me it was almost a second family. I still remember Chief's (Mr. Moody) admonishments that we sounded like potatoes without "salt" during early week rehearsals adding if we didn't get it right he would make us march with music. AND the band to the south never marched with music. Chief once asked me why I was in band. It wasn't a challenge but a question that forced me to look inward. He already knew the answer that I could not come up with then. And then there was Mr. B (N. P. Baggerly); all smooth and style. Emeril must have learned how to kick it up a notch from Mr. B! I know you remember the spin turns and flash we had during parades (T-Bones "rowing" us down the street). Man, we were good. Had my Dad not been transferred to Atlanta in my senior year, I would have gone to U of F and probably would have gone on to teach music in high school. But that did not happen. After graduating from a war zone called Avondale High school I went on to Emory (at Oxford, I thought I wanted to be a Doctor), Ga Tech and eventually Southern Tech (they changed their name after I graduated, I wonder if they were trying to tell me something). That is when the love of my life and I married back in '76. I then did a short stand with Pillsbury in New Albany, Indiana. just in time for the worst winter on record and promised the Lord if he would take us back to Ga we would NEVER move north again. That is when I got a job with Miller Brewing in Albany Ga and ten years later, after a couple promotions, was promoted to Corporate Eng in Milwaukee, WI (so much for never going n...Expand for more