Nunc Dimittis

Henry Murlin Kelsay, Noel Mander, Philip Marshall, Dorothy Hildegard Nordblad, Donald W. Williams

Ronald Edward Ballard,
of Little Rock, Arkansas, died on January 23, from kidney, liver, and heart
disease. Born on January 9, 1947, in North Little Rock, he was a graduate of
Oklahoma Baptist University. He wrote theater and concert reviews for the Spectrum
and Arkansas Times and was business administrator for Stanton Road School and
First Christian Church in Little Rock.

Elwin L. Myrick of Hillsboro,
Oregon, formerly of Springfield, died February 28 of age-related causes. He was
88. Born on April 18, 1914, in Gardiner to Lester and Edith Patterson Myrick,
he married Caroline ?Carrie? Eades in Portland on July 25, 1944. He
was raised and attended schools in Portland, and graduated from high school in
Huntington Park, California. He won a statewide piano contest held by the
Oregon Music Teachers Association, which awarded him a scholarship to the
University of Oregon.

Otto Alexander Altenburg died on October 18, 1997, at the age of 72. He was a Navy veteran, a
graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President of
Altenburg Piano House in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Altenburg Company is the
oldest family-owned piano house in the U.S., and has remained in family hands
since its founder made the first Altenburg piano in 1847. During his tenure as
president, Mr. Altenburg expanded the house's operations to 11 showrooms,
including one at Carnegie Hall in New York City.