WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL Alumni
PORTLAND, OREGON
MILITARY SPOTLIGHT
JACK DALBY (Band/Orchestra director from 1962-1974) DECEASED
WWII US AIR FORCE
Jack Corwin Dalby, the son of Albert Frederick and Cora Evans Dalby, was born in Topeka, Kansas on February 5, 1917, and died in Portland of causes related to age on October 12, 2011. He was 94. Jack's father was a stereotyper at the Topeka Daily Capital newspaper and his mother was a musician and church organist. In 1939 he received his bachelor's degree at Kansas University and later a master's degree at Drake University. Jack began his 38 year career in music education in Pleasant Hill, Mo., in 1940 where he taught all the music classes to all the grade levels. After a year of that, he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, to teach band and orchestra. When World War II interrupted everyone's life, Jack wound up as a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force stationed at a base in Carlsbad, N.M.