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PIANIST JUNE
. . . Mrs. Riering only female Singing Cadet.
‘Den Mother’ June
Is Lone Woman
In Singing Cadets
One of the key members of
the Singing Cadets isn’t a cadet
at all. As a matter of fact, she’s
not enrolled at A&M and doesn’t
like to sing.
This not so mysterious person
is Mrs. June Biering, painist and
accompanist for the Singing Ca
dets.
For the past five years Mrs.
Biering has played for all per
formances on the Cadets, ranging
from campus performances in the
Memorial Student Center to tours
all over the state.
Mrs. Biering’s role with the Ca
dets came about in an unusual
manner. Robert L. (Bob) Boone,
director of the group, needed
someone to play the piano for a
solo he was presenting in Bryan.
He called a local pianist who sug
gested Mrs. Biering.
. “She was very apprehensive
yvhen I called. She told me she
didn’t play for just anybody, but
finally suggested that I bring
over some music. It started out
as a 15-minute get-together and
turned into a three-hour concert.
It was a meeting of the minds,
you might say,” Boone recalled.
A week later, at Boone’s re
quest, Mrs. Biering became the
lone female in the Singing Cadets.
“She thinks the Cadets are the
greatest, and they feel the same
way about her. It’s sort of a
mutual admiration society,”
Boone said.
Sometimes the Cadets introduce
her as their den mother, but she
doesn’t mind. Her keen sense of
humor helps her to have a good
time everywhere they perform.
“She loves people and is very
popular everywhere we go. June
is witty and loves to talk. When
we are looking for her on a trip,
we just find the largest group
of people. She’s usually the cen
ter of attention,” Boone chuckled.
Music has always been a part
of Mrs. Biering’s life. She start
ed playing the piano and violin
when she was eight years old,
and at 12 gave a concert, featur
ing both instruments. Later she
dropped the violin and devoted
more time to piano, doing her
first professional work when she
was 18.
Her earlier performance was
given coverage in the Army-
Navy Journal. Since her father
was a colonel, she was what she
herself calls “an Army brat.” Al-
thuogh she was born in Oregon,
she lived there only a short time.
Other places she called home in
clude Honululu, Panama and the
Orient. Travel is still her cup
of tea, with Mexico being next on
the agenda, as soon as she can
persuade her husband Gus, dis
trict sales manager for Cater
pillar Tractors.
Latin rhythms are favorites
with the white-haired pianist. Her
love for such music stems from
her work with musicians when
she was music director of Radio
Station WOAI in San Antonio
for several years.
“We had some small combos.
Most of the men were Mexicans,
and really talented. I learned a
lot of their rhythms by working
with them,” she said. “I played
nothing but classical music until
I got into radio,” she added.
Boone calls Mrs. Biering a very
serious performer. “She wants
everything she does to be the
best. June has the knack for
being sensitive to the performer.
She takes ordinary music and
makes it full. You might say
she can take a dish of vanilla
ice cream and make it into a
banana split with all the trim
mings,” he explained.
Mrs. Biering contends that “fil
ling in,” or “providing that little
extra something when it’s need
ed” has become automatic. “It’s
hard not to do it,” she smiled.
Since the composition of the
Singing Cadets changes each
semester, Mrs. Biering finds it
difficult to say what they do
best. “Sometimes we have more
basses, other times more tenors,”
she explained, adding’ “I’ll tell
you this—they are most inspira
tional. They have helped to keep
me here.”
Her hobbies include her pets,
a black mare, dogs, cats and
birds. “I’ve got a dog as big
as a bear,” she grinned.
She also loves to cook. “I
like to cook anything, just as
long as it’s something different,”
she said.
Browder Medical Fund Hits $2,300
The Julie Browder Medical Fund
totaled more than $2,300 Wednes
day as the infant was reported to
be apparently winning her fight
against disease which left her tem
porarily blind and deaf.
The child is presently at her
grandparents’ home in Granbury,
and her eyesight and hearing ap
pear to be returning to normal.
The daughter of veterinary medi
cine student James T. Browder
was stricken with a severe viral
infection and admitted to a local
hospital Jan. 1. She was later
transferred to Dallas where her
parents consulted a neurosurgeon
to consider possibility of surgery.
The fund was started Jan. 12
by the First Year Veterinary Medi
cine Wives Club to help defray
the medical expenses involved in
treating the infant. Club mem
bers placed collection jars through
out the Bryan-College Station area
in various business establishments.
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