{"id":46327,"date":"2017-06-27T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46327"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:14:17","slug":"englewood-independent-details-alums-gift-for-music-practice-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/27\/englewood-independent-details-alums-gift-for-music-practice-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Englewood Independent details alum’s gift for music practice room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steve King ’85 in the music practice room in the Creative Arts Center named after his mother, Marilee King, who graduated from Wright State in 1969 with a degree in education. (Photos by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

FAIRBORN \u2014 For eight years of their lives \u2014 between the ages of 7 and 15 \u2014 Steve and Mike King practiced the piano virtually every day on a baby grand in the living room of their Trotwood home.<\/p>\n

Their mother \u2014 Marilee King \u2014 insisted on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no way out of it and there was no quitting,\u201d recalled Steve King, now 59. \u201cShe was the law, and you were going to do as was expected of you. Her standard phrase in response was, \u2018You\u2019ll thank me some day.\u2019 And by God was she right.\u201d<\/p>\n

In honor of Marilee King, who graduated from Wright State University in 1969 with a degree in education, College of Liberal Arts Dean Linda Caron made a donation to have a music-practice room in the university\u2019s Creative Arts Center named after her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI admired her greatly,\u201d said Caron, a close friend of Marilee\u2019s and Steve King\u2019s partner for the past 23 years. \u201cShe was a strong, smart and independent woman with a great sense of humor and an enormous love of family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve King, who graduated from Wright State in 1985 with a degree in political science, would use the music practice rooms a few times a week when he was a student because he didn\u2019t have a keyboard where he lived. He hopes Caron\u2019s donation inspires others to give back to the university.<\/p>\n

Read the entire story at\u00a0englewoodindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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