This gent and I stood next to each other for a year in the 28-voice chorale in high school, and he was so understated and unassuming, I never felt I knew him very well. Keith Schueck was a musically gifted young man who was active in choir, chorale, band and a jazz group in high school. In 1977, he was the vocal category winner in the "Stars of Tomorrow" competition sponsored by the Lions Club.
Since we were both tall, we stood together on the uppermost riser while performing and in rehearsal, and I would hear his lovely tenor voice in my ear, harmonizing with my alto. He had good pitch like my own, so he never got on my nerves. I particularly enjoyed hearing him during the Bruckner Te Deum. He had a sweet tenor, but could pull out the stops and sound stronger when needed. Keith was a very nice fellow who never said much, and was genuine and shy enough that he still truly blushed sometimes. I thought he was very cute in his way.
At some point I heard that Keith had passed away not long after high school from testicular cancer. It was shocking. He was too young, too nice, and too clean living for that kind of bad luck. I think he was the first person I knew in high school who died after graduation. Just 19, he was a freshman music major at Moravian College when he passed. He did not go soft into that good night; six months before he left us, in August of 1980, confined to a wheelchair since that June, he participated in another Lions Club event - bowling for young handicapped people. In August of 1981, two young men from Allentown, Jamie Knerr and Keith A. Biery threw a Frisbee to raise money in Keith's honor for the American Cancer Society, while making a new Guinness record for outdoor Frisbee play, 110 hours and 40 minutes.
Since we were both tall, we stood together on the uppermost riser while performing and in rehearsal, and I would hear his lovely tenor voice in my ear, harmonizing with my alto. He had good pitch like my own, so he never got on my nerves. I particularly enjoyed hearing him during the Bruckner Te Deum. He had a sweet tenor, but could pull out the stops and sound stronger when needed. Keith was a very nice fellow who never said much, and was genuine and shy enough that he still truly blushed sometimes. I thought he was very cute in his way.
At some point I heard that Keith had passed away not long after high school from testicular cancer. It was shocking. He was too young, too nice, and too clean living for that kind of bad luck. I think he was the first person I knew in high school who died after graduation. Just 19, he was a freshman music major at Moravian College when he passed. He did not go soft into that good night; six months before he left us, in August of 1980, confined to a wheelchair since that June, he participated in another Lions Club event - bowling for young handicapped people. In August of 1981, two young men from Allentown, Jamie Knerr and Keith A. Biery threw a Frisbee to raise money in Keith's honor for the American Cancer Society, while making a new Guinness record for outdoor Frisbee play, 110 hours and 40 minutes.
This gent and I stood next to each other for a year in the 28-voice chorale in high school, and he was so understated and unassuming, I never felt I knew him very well. Keith Schueck was a musically gifted young man who was active in choir, chorale, band and a jazz group in high school. In 1977, he was the vocal category winner in the "Stars of Tomorrow" competition sponsored by the Lions Club.
Since we were both tall, we stood together on the uppermost riser while performing and in rehearsal, and I would hear his lovely tenor voice in my ear, harmonizing with my alto. He had good pitch like my own, so he never got on my nerves. I particularly enjoyed hearing him during the Bruckner Te Deum. He had a sweet tenor, but could pull out the stops and sound stronger when needed. Keith was a very nice fellow who never said much, and was genuine and shy enough that he still truly blushed sometimes. I thought he was very cute in his way.
At some point I heard that Keith had passed away not long after high school from testicular cancer. It was shocking. He was too young, too nice, and too clean living for that kind of bad luck. I think he was the first person I knew in high school who died after graduation. Just 19, he was a freshman music major at Moravian College when he passed. He did not go soft into that good night; six months before he left us, in August of 1980, confined to a wheelchair since that June, he participated in another Lions Club event - bowling for young handicapped people. In August of 1981, two young men from Allentown, Jamie Knerr and Keith A. Biery threw a Frisbee to raise money in Keith's honor for the American Cancer Society, while making a new Guinness record for outdoor Frisbee play, 110 hours and 40 minutes.
Since we were both tall, we stood together on the uppermost riser while performing and in rehearsal, and I would hear his lovely tenor voice in my ear, harmonizing with my alto. He had good pitch like my own, so he never got on my nerves. I particularly enjoyed hearing him during the Bruckner Te Deum. He had a sweet tenor, but could pull out the stops and sound stronger when needed. Keith was a very nice fellow who never said much, and was genuine and shy enough that he still truly blushed sometimes. I thought he was very cute in his way.
At some point I heard that Keith had passed away not long after high school from testicular cancer. It was shocking. He was too young, too nice, and too clean living for that kind of bad luck. I think he was the first person I knew in high school who died after graduation. Just 19, he was a freshman music major at Moravian College when he passed. He did not go soft into that good night; six months before he left us, in August of 1980, confined to a wheelchair since that June, he participated in another Lions Club event - bowling for young handicapped people. In August of 1981, two young men from Allentown, Jamie Knerr and Keith A. Biery threw a Frisbee to raise money in Keith's honor for the American Cancer Society, while making a new Guinness record for outdoor Frisbee play, 110 hours and 40 minutes.
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