{"id":637,"date":"2010-01-09T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=637"},"modified":"2013-03-10T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:41:07","slug":"paul-e-koch-51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/paul-e-koch-51-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul E. Koch \u201951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passed away May 12, 2009 in St. John\u2019s Hospital, Springfield, Illinois. Graduate of OWU where he majored in music, he earned a master\u2019s of sacred music degree at Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Army from 51-54 and with Illinois Bell Telephone from 70-82. He served as organist and director of music in several churches, composed numerous musical pieces and was a member of both the National Fellowship of Methodist Musicians and the Presbyterian Association of Musicians.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<u>Memories of Paul from \u201cBo\u201d Dove \u201958<\/em><\/u><br \/>\nBo recalled a recent visit with Paul when he and brothers Dave \u201953 and Frank Dove \u201958 were traveling to Chicago near Paul\u2019s home and made an unexpected stop. Dave walked over to the piano, sat down next to Paul and as Paul was playing, David asked him to play \u201cMarching Along With Beta Theta Pi\u201d and Paul, not missing a beat, immediately switched to the tune requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passed away May 12, 2009 in St. John\u2019s Hospital, Springfield, Illinois. Graduate of OWU where he majored in music, he earned a master\u2019s of sacred music degree at Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Army from 51-54 and with Illinois Bell Telephone from 70-82. He served as organist and director of music in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-ever-honored-memory","category-theta-data","tag-january-2010-theta-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9312,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/9312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}