I just saw Bill's "In Memoriam" notice in Villanova Magazine.
My memory of Bill is his playing the saxophone in our band during high school. We had two guitars with Norm Kropp and myself, a trumpet player, and of course a drummer. One time we played an American Legion or VFW post in Lansdowne. A so called "feature" of our act was a 5 minute drum solo during which the other four members would go on break outdoors.I can't imagine that our parents' generation got any enjoyment from those noisy five minutes! Probably lots of rolling eyes.One of us took a cigarette break. Was it Bill or the trumpeter?
Bill was always a cheerful guy. We also crossed paths during our Villanova years, but not as band mates. The community probably thanked us. Years later my wife who was a speech therapist met Bill at the hospital in Springfield. She really liked him, of course.
Ed Elliot
