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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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font-style:italic'>This comes to us from Sarah Cline, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">High School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Jazz
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We in BHS, and BUSD, Jazz lost our founding father this
Easter. Dr. Herb Wong passed early in the morning Sunday April 20th. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr. Wong was the visionary principal of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Elementary School</st1:PlaceType>
who was responsible for the hiring Phil Hardymon, Dick Wittington and Bob
Chaconas to teach jazz to little kids in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Unified</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School District</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, way back
in the late 1960's. At that time he was one of a very few people in the nation
who believed in jazz education at the elementary school level -- as music
education, as a part of the civil rights movement, and as a way of propagating
a truly democratic and artistic spirit among those of us in the next generation<font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Dr. Herb Wong, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Elementary School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Principal invited
world class big bands to perform for BUSD students.</span></font></i></b><font
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font-family:Arial'>There was no<i><span style='font-style:italic'> actual
existing jazz curriculum written for such little kids, and so Dr. Wong's newly
hired teachers set about creating it. Their work showed the way to an
entire nation. In the meantime, Dr. Wong brought famous jazz musicians
including Duke Ellington an</span></i>d Oscar Peterson to give concerts at ... <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Elementary School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Unbelievable!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Talk about idealism. Talk about the 1960s. Talk
about <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>.
Talk about Dr. Herb Wong.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It was this vision of Dr. Wong's that gave so many of us the
opportunity to learn about jazz, fall in love with the music, and become the
artists and people that we are today. Scores of professional jazz artists
are alumni of the program Dr. Wong started, nurtured, believed in, and stumped
for. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>BHS Jazz has been planning to honor Dr. Wong at our annual
alumni concert, this year on <span tabindex=0>June 1st</span>. The City of
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City> is set
to issue an award, and now ... it will very sadly have to be presented
posthumously. It would be very fitting for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Unified</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School District</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> to also
honor Dr. Wong at this occasion, for his unparalleled service to our schools.
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font-family:Arial'>Another giant has fallen. Continuing to carry out Dr. Wong's
vision falls to those of us who remain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222'>There is a rather
incomplete obit here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#222222" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222'><a
href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25605000/herb-wong-bay-area-jazz-lover-expert-dies"
target="_blank">http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25605000/herb-wong-bay-area-jazz-lover-expert-dies</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In 2009 at the BHS Jazz Ensemble Alumni
All Stars Concert, Dr. Wong spoke at length about the program that he
developed. I had the opportunity to record his talk in this previously
unreleased video. This video features one number by the 1977 to 2008 BHS Jazz
Alumni Al Stars, and the words of Dr. Herb Wong.</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>BHS Jazz Ensemble Alumni All Stars and
Dr. Herb Wong: <a href="https://vimeo.com/92656149">https://vimeo.com/92656149</a></span></font><font
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