Julie Macomber was the speaker at the Douglas Kiwanis Club meeting of Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Flyin’ Cowboy restaurant.
Julie spoke about “The Big Band Era : 1935-1945,” a paper written by her late grandfather, Charles Rudibaugh, Jr., who was a Kiwanian in Ohio for over 60 years.
The program covered the greats like Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Goodman among many others. Her grandfather was a small part of the big band era, playing lead trumpet in a regimental dance band in S.W Mississippi at Camp Vandorn during World War II. After the war, he was lead trumpet in the same band and also a stage band for a show called “A Burlesque Version of the Opera Carmen,” in which 146 shows were played all over Europe.
The Kiwanis club members enjoyed and appreciated her talk.
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