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Digital Piano Lab Giving 8th-graders a Chance to Flex Their Musical Wings

By EDWARD HUSAR Herald-Whig Staff Writer Eighth graders at Quincy Junior High School are getting a new opportunity to explore the magic of making music. A state-of-the-art digital piano lab went into operation this fall on the school’s fourth floor. The lab — featuring 24 digital pianos bought with donations — is being used as…

Couple's donation brings new life to QJHS band room

By EDWARD HUSAR Herald-Whig Staff Writer Quincy native John Lynn Lubker developed a love for music in the mid-1940s when he was a high school student while practicing the trombone in the fourth-floor band room what is now Quincy Junior High School. After he graduated in 1947, Lubker went on to a distinguished career in…