Fredric Taylor was studying at Cornell College, a small liberal arts school in Mount Vernon, Iowa, when Japan struck Pearl Harbor. But this month, Taylor will finally walk across the graduation stage — 80 years after his scheduled ceremony.
Then, in December 1941, Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to enter World War II. Taylor, knowing he could be drafted into the military, instead joined the Army Air Corps the following year.
Taylor developed a passion for music when he started playing the sousaphone at his Springville, Iowa, middle school. In high school, he joined the instrumental and choir music groups and learned to play the euphonium and trombone and sing solos. After returning to Iowa, Taylor joined the Iowa Air National Guard and had a daughter, Linda, in 1948. Taylor earned a master’s degree in music education from Drake University in the mid-1950s. He said he missed that graduation ceremony, too, because he was working in sales for Armour and Company in South Dakota.He later became a music instructor for elementary, middle and high schools — a profession he continued when he moved to La Mesa, Calif., in 1959.
Taylor was married to Peggy for more than 75 years before her death from kidney failure in March 2020, Linda said. Linda figured she needed to take action if her dad was ever going to participate in a graduation.
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