African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Remembrances about childhood in Houston, Texas, and undergraduate education at Wiley College; employment as band director at Fred Moore High School in Denton; graduate studies in Music, and then in Education, at NTSU; career with and retirement from Dallas County Community College; perceptions of changes in Denton and at North Texas over forty years; experiences of wife, Gloria, and daughter, Debbie Denmon, at North Texas.