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Auto Spare Parts Dealer Comes Out of
Retirement to Head Wurlitzer Organ Dept.
From L. to R.: Donald R. Manchester, Sales Manager, Organ Division, Rudolph
Company; W . MacBride, Office Maanger, Louis Rosa, Service Manager, Organ
Louis Hollingsworth, Staff Assistant to Sales Manager, Ralph Gates, Advertising
Promotion Manager, Jess Williams, McCabe Piano and Organ Company seated at
4600 Organ.
Wurlitzer
Division,
& Sales
Wurlitzer
Sixty Teachers Attend Hammond
Seminar in Tulsa in Spite of Snow
The largest Hammond organ teach-
ing seminar ever conducted by the
Sherwood School of Music outside
Chicago was held recently at the Mayo
hotel in Tulsa, Okla., under the spon-
sorship of the Jenkins Music Co.
AD advance registration of seventy-
two teachers from Oklahoma. Arkansas.
Missouri and Kansas was reduced when
an 8-inch snow fell in northern sec-
tions of the territory of the 12-store
Jenkins chain. Sixty teachers attended.
Jess Vt illiams of McCabe Piano and
Organ Co.. Lincoln. Neb., visited the
factories of the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
in North Tonawanda. N. Y., recently.
Mr. Williams is currently a piano
salesman with McCabe but in a very-
short time will concentrate his entire
efforts on organ sales. His position in
the music business is rather unique.
Just a short time ago, he retired as an
owner and operator of an automobile
spare parts business in Lincoln, Neb.
All through life his hobby has been
playing the piano and organ and his
many friends in Lincoln, have often
enjoyed his accomplished playing.
It was Clark McCabe who interested
Mr. Williams in coming out of retire-
ment and joining his organization. Jess
Williams feels his new association with
McCabe is the greatest phase of his
life. A short time ago Jess expressed a
desire to take over the Wurlitzer Organ
Department at McCabes and his visit
to the factory contributed greatly to
this transition. Mr. Williams arrived
on this exact date of the meeting of
the Retail Store Division of the Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co.
Walter A. Erley, Sherwood presi-
dent, was in charge of arrangements,
with nine members of the Sherwood
staff assisting him. Among the instruc-
tors were Porter Heaps, internationally
known organ virtuoso; Arthur Wild-
man, musical director for Sherwood.
Hildegard Sill, Ralph Sunden. Hugh
Price, and Francis Keyser.
W. T. Sutherland, piano-organ de-
partment manager of Jenkins, was on
hand.
Teacher reaction to the seminar was
enthusiastic and both Tulsa newspapers
carried news stories and pictures of
seminar activities. The Tulsa World of
December 31 featured a 3-col headline
and 2-col photograph of the Hammond
chord organ being played by a report-
er for the paper under the instruction
of John Shallcross. Hammond sales
promotion manager.
R. G. VOLKWEIJS
T H E H A M M O N D ORGAN T E A C H I N G S E M I N A R S T A F F at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa.
L. to R.: Francis Keyser; W. T. Sutherland, manager of the Jenkins piano and organ
division; Hugh Price, staff member of the Sherwood School of Music; Walter A. Erley,
Sherwood president; Ralph Sunden, Mrs. Raymond Lowe and Mrs. Hildegard Sill, Sherwood
sntaff; Raymond Lowe, Sherwood; John N. Shallcross, sales promotion manager of the
Hammond Organ Co., and Arthur Wildman, Sherwood musical director, with Mrs. Erley
seated at the Hammond Organ.
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Funeral services were held on Jan-
uary 23rd for Rudolph George Volk-
wein, music instrument dealer, who
died in Pittsburgh on January 21st.
He is survived by two sons, a
brother and a grandchild.
Services were at the Frank W. Si-
mons funeral home. Burial was in
Uniondale Cemetery.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, FEBRUARY,
1954