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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 3750300, member: 656"] I'm in the (slo) process of writing a book about a wondrous Baltimore organist with the talent to be the next Bernstein...could do it all...but whose success in New York was like a firework; flamed up, sputtered down...His name is Tom Dunn. In 1942, at the tender age of 16, he became substitute organist of the Episcopal Pro Cathedral when the resident, organist and choirmaster was drafted. And here's the point of that long and boring intro.. . Ensign (soon to be Lt JG) R. Donald McDormann (the organist) had a fascinating naval career....4 or 5 convoy escort gigs across he Atlantic as anti-submarine officer of the USS destroyer escort Blessman, participation in the landings at D-day and then re-fit as a fast troop carrier and a voyage through the Panama canal to take part in the Iwo Jima campaign. Not many ships, nor crew can make that claim. [/QUOTE]