From Linden Waddell:

On behalf of my brother Laird and my sister Mariana (Pinky),
it gives me great pleasure to announce a way to honor and remember our father, John S. Waddell:

The John S. Waddell Memorial Fund
benefiting the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts
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John Waddell was the first Music Department Chair for the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). He served for ten years (1985-1995) and after retiring was responsible for the design, configuration and installation of its Henry Mancini Electronic Music Laboratory.

Peter Grenader, a former student of John's from Birmingham High School, remained his friend for many years afterward. It was Peter's idea to establish this fund and he discussed this with both John and the LACHSA Foundation Executive Director, Kathleen Ulinski. She felt it was an ideal way to keep John's memory and tradition alive for the students and the fund was officially endowed in December of 2002.

Before his death November 12, 2002, my father was aware that the fund was being finalized and was very pleased to know it would benefit future music students at LACHSA.

It was his wish that Electronic Music be supported, especially. My family will assist in the selection of the specific causes of support at LACHSA, which will be announced anuually on his birthday on July 5th.


From Peter Grenader:

It gives me great pleasure to announce the addition of the John S. Waddell Memorial Fund site to the world wide web. Along with general information on the foundation itself, in the future it will as well list fund allocations as they occur.

In the months which preceded John's passing, I had the good fortune of meeting many of his friends, past students and family. And when discussing their own emotions on the topic, which ran deep, there was a common proclamation among every one of them:

Four words -"He changed my life."

 Quite remarkable, quite uncanny, and quite typically John.

From the photos on this masthead, those of us who knew him see what we surely remember -- a passionate man who was driven by the beauty of music, who devoted his life passing his great body of knowledge onto others. His magic need not stop now and I see this fund as an opportunity to give back and give to others the gifts he instilled in us all.

I urge you to help, so that together we may continue to change people's lives.

Click here to view John Waddell's Permanent Memorial Guestbook and please feel free to add to it.

Click here for information on John's writings on The Great Harmonic Set